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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best NovelWinner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best NovelStartling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troub

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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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Horror Stories, monsters, Fear

“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, Sleep, Weather

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Hiding, Mask, emotions, Complexity

“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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Childhood, Appreciation, Small Things, Joy, Simple Things

“You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Up, Worth, Relevance, Life

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Existence, Nobody is Perfect, live life to the fullest

“Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. That’s why they’re monsters.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Bravery, Cowardice, monsters

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Love of Books, Literature, Bibliophile

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: True Colors, Character of a Person, Complicated person

“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: pluviophile, Rain, Deep Thoughts, enjoying the moment

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Failures, human

“I went away in my head…That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Escape

“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: Fear, monsters, scary, People, Reality

“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Adulthood, Children, Destiny, purpose

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Personality, Failures

“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.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Childhood, Innocence, Small Things

“Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Recollection

“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Art, Passion, Escapism

“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: Sleep, rainy nights, Rain, Wind, Nature

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Escape, Reality, fiction, Books, Novels