Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
NEIL GAIMANHave you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Love 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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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