“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able
to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the
way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove
remarkably difficult to kill. Stories, like people and butterflies and
songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up
of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of
punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas -
abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken. And what could be more
frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on
adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have
outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the
lands in which they were created.” – Neil Gaiman
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