Quotes by Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Words save our lives, sometimes. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a fi — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could no — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not hav — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Books were safer than other people anyway. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look l — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I won — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The dread had not left my soul. — Neil Gaiman, 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. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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 wor — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
She was the storm, she was the lightning... — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crack — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of ic — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane