I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am 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.

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?

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.

You know I love you, ' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it, ' said Coraline.

Mirrors, ' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

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.

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

The Lord will make much more out of your life than you can by yourself.