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  • 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. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.

    Gun   Space   Laughing  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.30, A&C Black
  • Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

    Mother   Love You   Way  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.154, A&C Black
  • There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

    Rain   Clouds   Coraline  
  • Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.

    Dog   Missing   Chocolate  
  • You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

    Mother   Love You   Eye  
    "Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.
  • Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 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 (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black
  • Fairy tales are more than true.

  • She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

    Real   Cat   Grandmother  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Mother   Trying   Doe  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

    Hurt   Father   Coraline  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.54, A&C Black
  • I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.91, A&C Black
  • Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

    Eye   Names   Missing  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.50, A&C Black
  • Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

    "Coraline". www.imdb.com. February 5, 2009.
  • I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

    Fun   Mean   Doe  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.69, A&C Black
  • Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.

    Girl   Nice   Kissing  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.187, A&C Black
  • Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

    Adults   Coraline   Made  
  • What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said 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.

    Cat   Names   People  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Cat   Names   People  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black
  • I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.71, A&C Black
  • You can't make me love you.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.91, A&C Black
  • But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

    "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.
  • We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

    Fall   Rose   Coraline  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.12, A&C Black
  • The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

    Sky   World   Coraline  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black
  • Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

    Mirrors   Coraline   Said  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.90, A&C Black
  • She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing
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