Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

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.

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.