We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.

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.

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.