People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANYou’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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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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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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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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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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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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