Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.