The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

“It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.”

“You are ignorant, boy,” said Miss Lupescu. “This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Then the last lines of the song came back to Mistress Owens, and she sang them to her son. “Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken”