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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her. (Neil Gaiman)
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die. View quote
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Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish. View quote
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As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. View quote
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America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America. View quote
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For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done. View quote
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Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them. View quote
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Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. View quote
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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. View quote
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I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. View quote
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It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie. (Neil Gaiman)
The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way. View quote
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It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. View quote
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I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. View quote
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There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by. View quote
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You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else. View quote
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Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod I mean, really looked at them There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in. View quote
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So many things to see, people to do. View quote
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Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious. View quote
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It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him. View quote
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What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? (Neil Gaiman)
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. View quote
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I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. View quote
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The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly. View quote
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Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A. View quote
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