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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    There are no whores in Scaithe's Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed, would describe themselves as much-married, with one husband on this ship here every six months, and another husband on that ship, back in port for a month or so every nine months. The mathematics of the thing have always kept most folk satisfied; and if ever it disappoints and a man returns to his wife while one of her other husbands is still in occupancy, why, then there is a fight - and the grog shops to comfort the loser. The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the last, will notice when they do not come back from the sea, and will mourn their loss; and their wives content themselves with the certain knowledge that their husbands are also unfaithful, for there is no competing with the sea in a man's affections, since she is both mother and mistress, and she will wash his corpse also, in time to come, wash it to coral and ivory and pearls.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.
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