I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMANPeople 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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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 don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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.
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