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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Latkes are potato pancakes served at Hanukkah, and Lemony Snicket is an alleged children’s author. For the first time in literary history, these two elements are combined in one book. A particularly irate latke is the star of The Latke Who Couldn’

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Neil Gaiman (13)

“Books were safer than other people anyway.””

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Safety of Reading, Cocooned in a Book

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Novels, Bibliophile, Reader

“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: rainy nights, Appreciation, Reflection, Comfort, Silence

“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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Control, Walking Away, Holding Back, Happiness

“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Salvation, Words Heal, words save, Lives

“I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Life

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Up, adult life, Children

“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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Death, Life

“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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: monsters, Evil, Fear

“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. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Up, adult life

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading