Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

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.

Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.