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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

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.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

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.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

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!

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.