How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"You were a little momzer," several aunts told me, on different occasions, once I had safely reached adulthood and my dreadful infant deeds could be recalled with dry amusement. (6.1)
You know the saying time heals all wounds? It also heals one's sense of embarrassment and shame. What was horribly humiliating when you were little takes on the element of humor a little later in life as you gain perspective.
Quote #8
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the space between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive. (6.48)
Gaiman likes to point out the differences between children and adults for many reasons, but one that he emphasizes is the change that occurs with the passage of time. As we grow older, he asserts, we lose our sense of wonder and independence, and so blindly follow roads and paths like sleepwalking sheep.
Quote #9
I stared at her: at her short brownish-red hair, her snub-nose, her freckles. She looked three or four years older than me. She might have been three or four thousand years older, or a thousand times older again. I would have trusted her to the gates of Hell and back. (10.74)
It is the fact that she might be thousands of years old that makes him trust her so implicitly? Or is it despite the fact that he has no clue how old she really is?