Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMANI hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Libraries are our friends.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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