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I looked back at the farmhouse in my rear-view mirror, and a trick of the light made it seem as if two moons hung in the sky above it, like a pair of eyes watching me from above: one moon perfectly full and round, the other, its twin on the other side of the sky, a half-moon.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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A small part of my mind remembered an alternative pattern of events, and then lost it, as if I had woken from a comfortable sleep, and looked around, pulled the bedclothes over me and returned to my dream.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having, if not died, then having given up her life.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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Silence then, and it was louder than worlds could have been. They had nothing to say.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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We are hunger birds. We have devoured palaces and worlds and kings and stars.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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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 took joy in the things that made me happy.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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I found myself thinking of an ocean running beneath the whole universe, like the dark seawater that laps beneath the wooden boards of an old pier: an ocean that stretches from forever to forever and is still small enough to fit inside a bucket, if you have Old Mrs Hempstock to help you, and you ask nicely.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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The second thing I thought was that I knew everything. Lettie Hempstock's ocean flowed inside me, and it filled the entire universe.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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I thought, this is the kind of water you can breathe. I thought, perhaps there is just a secret to breathing water, something simple that everyone could do, if only they knew.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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And after you have been eaten, you too will be nothing. But whatever remains of that nothing will be mine to keep, eaten and together, my toy and my distraction, until the end of time. We'll have such fun.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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The sky was going grey and the world was losing depth and flattening into twilight. If the shadows were still there I could no longer perceive them; or rather, the whole world had become shadows.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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But you, little farm girl. What shall I do with you? Something appropriate. Perhaps I ought to turn you inside out, so your heart and brains and flash are all on the outside, and the skin side's inside. Then I'll keep you wrapped up in my room here, with your eyes staring forever at the darkness inside yourself.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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'We don't do spells,' she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. 'We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common.'

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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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. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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