I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure... - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

"Words save our lives, sometimes."

"I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."