If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.