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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
“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
“Began to tear at it - not as a creature that eats earth and grass, but as if it were eating a curtain or a piece of scenery with the world painted on it.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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