You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

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