The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Reviews
Engrossing story from an author I am generally on the fence about. Like a fairy tale in a sense- not neat and tidy and plenty of things dont make sense but that is the way it is supposed to be.
Classic Gaiman in all the best ways.
god i love neil gaiman
i had a feeling that neil gaiman gets me... what with sandmad and coraline but this one. i couldn't have imagined just how deeply this would resonate with me. childhood is hard, and mostly a dream, i agree. it's so much. i feel so understood. i feel so seen. thank you @ neil.
This book was weird, like really weird, but good weird.
Highlights
“And did I pass?"
The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at a being a person, dear.”
cries
“Nothing’s ever the same,” she said. “Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, “Be whole,” and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.
chapter 3. this is book feels like a lovely daydream
“I remember my own childhood vividly … I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.”
- Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, 27 September 1993
the epigraph <3