For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.
There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.