And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

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.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.