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81 " Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything. "
― Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book
82 " Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time. "
83 " You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies. "
84 " Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too. "
85 " I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you. "
86 " Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. "
87 " Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember. "
88 " And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever. "
89 " It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is "
90 " There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. "
91 " 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. "
92 " Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?""Yes, someone did.""A Man?""A Man.""Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question."Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?""Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?""No?""No. It's who will keep him safe from me? "
93 " It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to enjoy and the books that were good for you, and I was expected to choose sides. We were all expected to choose sides. And I didn't believe it, and I still don't.I was, and still am, on the side of books you love. "
94 " It's like the people who believe they'll be happier if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't really work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. "
95 " Fear is contagious. You can catch it. "
96 " (...) well, there's a girl I used to know, and I wasn't sure if I should find her and talk to her or if I should just forget about it.(...)Oh! You must go to her and implore her. You must call her your Terpsichore, your Echo, your Clytemnestra. You must write poems for her, mighty odes - I shall help you write them - and thus - and only thus - shall you win your true love's heart. "
97 " Rattle his bonesover the stonesits only a pauperwho nobody owns "
98 " Can I hug you?""Do you want to?"said Bod."Yes.""Well then."He thought for a moment."I don't mind if you do.""My hands won't go through you or anything?You're really there?""You won't go through me,"he told her,and she threw her arms around him and squeezed him so tightly he could hardly breathe. "
99 " La persona más valiente que conozco, y eres mi amigo. Me importa un pimiento que seas imaginario "
100 " ... the fundamental most comical tragedy of parenthood [is]: that if you do your job properly, if you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. And they have lives and they have families and they have futures. "