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 GaimanThere are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,โ she explained. โThereโs a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhereโit doesnโt all get used up at once.โ โI may still be hung over,โ sighed Richard. โThat almost made sense.
Neil GaimanWe have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.
Neil Gaiman