“I imagine it would be rather splendid to wander away from myself for a little while. I envy you.”
“The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
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