Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-G. K. Chesterton, epigraph from Neil Gaiman's Coraline
Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
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Fragile Things
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things, xii.
-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things, xii.
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