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“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
“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
“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
“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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