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“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
“If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.”
― 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
“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identity to her for the asking, as my father did.”
― 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
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