Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMANShe 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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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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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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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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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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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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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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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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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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