Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.