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“Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.”
“I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.”
“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
“I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.”
“Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
“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.”
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“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.”
“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 moth...”
“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 ...”
“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 ba...”
“You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said 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 ...”
“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.”
“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 e...”
“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.”
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”
“She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.”
“And he said that wasnt brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung, said Coraline to the cat. It wasnt brave because he wasnt scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going ...”
“She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.”
