Melissa Shook

“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane