Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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.
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
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.
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
Books were safer than other people anyway.
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
