If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead