Neil Gaiman Quote
The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been long ago since I had known everything. I looked at Lettie in the moonlight. Is that how it is for you? I asked. Is what how it is for me? Do you still know everything, all the time? ...She wrinkled her nose. Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play. To play what? This, she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.
The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been long ago since I had known everything. I looked at Lettie in the moonlight. Is that how it is for you? I asked. Is what how it is for me? Do you still know everything, all the time? ...She wrinkled her nose. Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play. To play what? This, she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.
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About Neil Gaiman
Gaiman's awards include Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards and Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards, and it was adapted into an acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London.
Beginning in 2024, news outlets published sexual assault accusations against Gaiman by numerous women. This affected or halted production on several adaptations of his work. One accuser sued Gaiman and his estranged wife Amanda Palmer for rape and human trafficking. Gaiman has denied these allegations.