“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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