Books were safer than other people anyway.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.