I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

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

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.