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He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting. (Neil Gaiman)
Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. View quote
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The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before. View quote
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Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad... View quote
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Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story. View quote
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills. View quote
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Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all. View quote
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There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike. View quote
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On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly. View quote
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He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. View quote
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He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. (Neil Gaiman)
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped. View quote
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It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer. View quote
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After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers. View quote
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Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. View quote
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Not gay, just never met the right woman. View quote
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And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever. View quote
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You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself. View quote
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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. View quote
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Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death. View quote
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head. (Neil Gaiman)
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. View quote
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Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections. View quote
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He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it. View quote
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The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it. View quote
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