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“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, Coraline

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Sometimes, you don't know what you want until you see it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“No matter how much you care about someone, things change when they used to be around all the time an then suddenly, they're not.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Addy gives me hope, because even though her life fell apart when Simon’s blog revealed her worst mistake, she put things back together–better than before. She’s stronger, happier, and much closer to her sister. Addy is the queen of second chances, and right now I really need the reminder that those exist.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“love and hope and beauty still exist, even when things seem impossibly dark.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“At this moment, I’ve never wanted to do anything as much as I want to grab his face and kiss every inch of it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I think the two of them are the real deal. She‘s still the one he wants. She‘ll probably always be the one he wants”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“And the way he made me laugh when i thought I‘d forgotten how.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next