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And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. (Neil Gaiman)
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. View quote
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You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right. View quote
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Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too. View quote
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It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is. View quote
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And so there is magic. View quote
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I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin. View quote
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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. View quote
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Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. View quote
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I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows. View quote
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It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house-and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person. (Neil Gaiman)
Nothing's changed. You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don't even get your name right. View quote
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Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. View quote
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But is this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. View quote
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The price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted. View quote
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I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution. View quote
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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange. View quote
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But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted. View quote
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I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. View quote
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It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America what found them when they came and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all. View quote
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Harry Harrison was crusty, curmudgeonly, opinionated and a real delight to know. (Neil Gaiman)
The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like Peregrine. He had not wanted to be like anyone at all. He had, instead, wanted to be elegant, elusive, brilliant and, above all things, he had wanted to be unique. Just like Peregrine. View quote
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Look, I'm sorry it's over too. But good things have to end, stories have to end. It's what gives them meaning. View quote
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Fuck! I got a Hugo! View quote
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Cabell's far and away my favourite forgotten American writer - he wrote about 25 books, most of them very different from each other. The only ones to have remained more or less in print over the last forty years are the fantasies Figures of Earth, Jurgen and The Silver Stallion. View quote
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