Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?"
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"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?"
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for ever, if both parties are willing."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it"Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it."Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on it one corner in slightly wiggly letters. She grunted and passed it to her mother."Mm. Very modern, dear," said Coraline's mother."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"How do I know you'll keep your word" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."Does she have a grave" asked Coraline."Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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