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“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I felt safe. It was as if the essence of grandmotherliness had been condensed into that one place, that one time.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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