Truth in Fiction

"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."

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Lettie Hempstock's ocean flowed inside me, and it filled the entire universe, from Egg to Rose. 

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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 found joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane