How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I wondered where the illusion of the second moon had come from, but I only wondered for a moment, and then I dismissed it from my thoughts. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk. (Epilogue.78)
Here—in the last paragraph of the book—Gaiman is doing the ultimate did-he-or-didn't-he trick. Did he make up all of those events with Lettie Hempstock, and convince himself out of boredom that they were real? Or did Gran really snip his memories, altering them so that he wouldn't go around in life knowing about fleas and varmints? Is the second moon the one that Gran likes to have shining in the hall window every night?
One thing's for certain: It's a very uncertain note to end the book on.