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“You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, Splendors and Glooms

“I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
"Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
"Swear on something else.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfortable conviction that she had seen into his soul. It was a look he was to remember often in the weeks to come.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, Splendors and Glooms

“I have every right to invite her to my home," he retorted. "She loves me for myself."
"That's not true," I said. "You abducted her and are keeping her under lock and key.”
― Gaston Leroux