Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
Neil GaimanYou know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
Neil GaimanWe make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
Neil GaimanOne of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.
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