Books were safer than other people anyway. - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
"Books were safer than other people anyway."
"Books were safer than other people anyway."
"Words save our lives, sometimes."
"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."
"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."
"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."
"I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."