“Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.”
― Grave Peril
― Grave Peril
“Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.”
― Grave Peril
― Grave Peril
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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