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So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. I'll still have a job on M...more

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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

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All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going lo...more

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All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going l...more

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You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Di...more

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You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he wo...more

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I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody tim...more

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Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip some...more

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Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in ...more

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When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

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There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and ...more

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I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learne...more