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Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment,

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Neil Gaiman
Children, Parenting, Age
Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Neil Gaiman
Age, Looks, World
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

Neil Gaiman
Book, Writing, Age

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

Neil Gaiman
Age, Stories, May
Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Neil Gaiman
Long, Parent, Age
Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

Neil Gaiman
Mirrors, Age, Faces
Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.52, Hachette UK

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