“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Actually, should you ever decide to subject me to this, I think..."
"You think what?"
"I think that I would probably buy you a diamond necklace the next day”
― The Seducer
"You think what?"
"I think that I would probably buy you a diamond necklace the next day”
― The Seducer
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“If he had been an ancient Egyptian, it was her image he'd have painted on the walls of his tomb, so that he could look at her for all eternity. Earl of Lisle, Last Night Scandal”
― Last Night's Scandal
― Last Night's Scandal
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