Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

Dreams shape the world

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.