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How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time, until your loved ones give you poison and sell you to anatomy, and even then you will die with a hole inside you, and you will wail and curse at a life ill-lived. But you won’t grow. You can come out, and we will end it, cleanly, or you can die in there, of hunger and of fear. And when you are dead your circle will mean nothing, and we will tear out your heart and take your soul for a keepsake

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

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, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Perché pensi che abbia paura di qualcosa? È un’adulta, no? Adulti e mostri non hanno paura di niente.» «Oh, i mostri hanno paura sì» disse Lettie. «È per questo che sono mostri. Quanto agli adulti…» Smise di parlare, si grattò il naso lentigginoso con il dito. Poi: «Adesso ti dico una cosa importante. Nemmeno gli adulti, dentro, hanno l’aspetto da adulti. Fuori sono grandi e grossi, sventati e sicuri di sé. Dentro, invece, hanno l’aspetto di sempre, quello che avevano alla tua età. La verità è che gli adulti non esistono. Non ce n’è nemmeno uno in tutto il mondo.