Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.