Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANLove takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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 went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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