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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

Neil Gaiman

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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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
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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Life Myself Reality
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Believe Myself Philosophy True
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Believe Inspirational Yourself
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
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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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Goodness Hell Writing
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk Yourself
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
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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Choice Life Path
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself

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