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  1. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    No echo de menos ser un niño, pero echo de menos el placer que me producían las pequeñas cosas, por más que las cosas importantes se estuvieran desmoronando. No podía controlar el mundo en el que vivía, no podía huir de las cosas, la gente o los momentos que me hacían daño, pero disfrutaba como un enano de lo que me hacía feliz.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative."
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it." A flash of resentment. 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. It wasn't fair.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    This book is the book you have just read. It's done. Now we're in the acknowledgments. This is not really part of the book. You do not have to read it. It's mostly just names.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I was their first book.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I'm going to tell you something important. 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." ... I wonderes if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    You don't pass or fail at being a person
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.
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