There, that wasn’t as bad as I had feared, he said cheerfully. I’ve got my hammer back. And I had a good dinner. Let’s go home.
People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it be...
You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.
They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste like shit, but at least they didn’t speak in clichés
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.
How are your dear mother and father? asked Miss Spink.Missing, said Coraline. I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existenc...
You don't pass or fail at being a person
Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, som...
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait f...
I woke myself in the darkness, and I knew only that a dream had scared me so badly that I had to wake up or die, and yet, try as I might, I could not remember what I had dreamed. The dream was hauntin...
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
Who wears masks?’‘Bank robbers?’‘No.’‘Really ugly people?’‘No.’‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide in delight.‘So that’s important?’‘Not even a little bi...
When most people said I'm psychic, you see, they meant I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie; when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was ad...
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.
I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked. I did not care how a story was written. Th...
You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.
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