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“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.”
― 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
“This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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