The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.
In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.
He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.
It begins, as most things begin, with a song.
Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
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.