But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.