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“I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
― 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 liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were.
Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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