The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.