A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.