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.
Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.
If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.
They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.
You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I’m there for all of them.
She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
I thought, I’m going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.
Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.
Whenever it rains you will think of her.
Fear is contagious. You can catch it.
There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.
You need more than a beginning if you’re going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you’ve written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.
The ideas aren’t that important. Really they aren’t. Everyone’s got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.