If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.