Coraline Quotes

• What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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• On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Missing, Firsts, Made

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love You, Matter, Said

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.91, A&C Black

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• How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Trying, Doe

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mirrors, Said, Trusted

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.90, A&C Black

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• Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adults, Made, Mets

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• I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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  Brave, Be Brave

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.71, A&C Black

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Mean, Doe

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Love You, Eye

  "Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.

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• Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

  Neil Gaiman

  Broken, Spirit

  "Coraline". www.imdb.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

  Neil Gaiman

  Bravery, Scared, Said

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Want Something

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Spiders, Enough, Spider Web

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Nice, Kissing

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.187, A&C Black

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• She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Cat, Grandmother

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

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• You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Love You, Way

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.154, A&C Black

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• The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

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  Sky, World, Armchairs

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

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• She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Silly, Doors, Feelings

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Wall, Eye

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

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  Rain, Clouds, Said

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• It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

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  Hurt, Father, Said

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.54, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Walking Away

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

  Neil Gaiman

  Spider Web, Walks, Stills

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Fear, Location

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.113, A&C Black

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