I'm bored, " she said."Learn how to tap-dance, " he suggested, without turning around.

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.

When I look back at where I come from, I realize it's for a good reason that God changed my life.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.