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There's this thing, they have ...

There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.

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It's only a world, after all, ...

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

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You don't pass or fail at bein...

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

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She really was pretty, for a g...

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

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She smiled at Coraline, as if ...

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

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Different people remember thin...

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

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If you have something specific...

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

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They were not my friends, afte...

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

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She was the storm, she was the...

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

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I wondered if that was true: i...

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

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Hasn't there always been a moo...

Hasn't there always been a moon?' 'Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...

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You can't just boss bacteria a...

You can't just boss bacteria around like that,' said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. 'They don't like it.' 'Stuff and silliness,' said the old lady. 'You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese..

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Small children believe themsel...

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

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My bed was pushed up hard agai...

My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak. There would be raindrops blown onto my face, too, if I was lucky, and I would imagine that I was in my boat on the ocean and that it was swaying with the swell of the sea. I did not imagine that I was a pirate, or that I was going anywhere. I

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It's always too late for sorri...

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

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Words save our lives, sometime...

Words save our lives, sometimes.

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But there was a kitten on my p...

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

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I would read. I would explore...

I would read. I would explore

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I was not scared of anything, ...

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...

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This was the void. Not blackne...

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

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