"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" Quotes

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either.

I do not remember asking to be born.

I was not scared of anything. I was not alone. I was loved.

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.

I lived in books. I loved the smell of them, the feel of their weight in my hands, the rustle of the pages as I turned them.

The truth is, it's not the monsters that you need to be afraid of. It's the people you should fear.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things.