The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

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

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

He decided not to tell anyone what he was planning, on the not entirely unreasonable basis that they would have told him not to do it.

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

“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won’t be home any longer.”

“Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken”