Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding, an’ tomorrow we could hide, an’ it’d be the witches’ turn to find US.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.