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But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable.

I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.

Being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared, really scared, badly scared, and you did the right thing anyway.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.

People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you'd be wrong. He'd be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

You lie, All-father. You lie in the way that some folk breathe.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything?

I'll swap you my dad," I said.
"Oh-oh," said my little sister.

And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

All the dinosaurs have gone off into the stars, leaving the world to mammals.

And then he said, "Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
"Different woman," said Mr. Nancy. "Same deal.

In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.

There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

You didn't bring us here,' Lettie said. 'We came because we wanted to. And I came to give you one last chance to go.

She hoped it wasn't a spider. Spiders made Coraline intensely uncomfortable.

When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.

The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

who could think of nothing more embarrassing than being anywhere without an invitation) he

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

Whither thou goest...

But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is.

The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. 'Take comfort in this,' he whispered. 'Th'art alive. Thou livest.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

I squeezed my hands into fists, and I hoped as hard as I knew how

Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?'
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?

They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

Yesterday, all this was snow. Always winter, and never Christmas.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

A click: the sound of a switchblade opening, empty, lonely and dark.

In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely?

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

I never saw his wife, not then, nor at any other time. I do not know what color her hair was.

Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

Most people do not notice other people.

I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'?

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. "What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends," said Jacquel. "It's not always fatal.

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

It is as natural to die as it is to be born.

Most of the things that "everybody knows" are wrong. The rest are merely unreliable.
Batman

not Rom. They're Russian. Slavs, I believe." "But she does fortune-telling.

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree?

Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another's, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

The dread had not left my soul.

I'm not happy about any of this," said Thor. "I'm going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You'll see.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.

I like things to be story-shaped.

Trolls can smell the rainbow, trolls can smell the stars. Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed before you were ever born.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

I will not be my father's dog.

The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

Watch where you put your words.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

The Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death.

Bod was obedient but curious.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Many good people read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, corrections, encouragement, and information.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

You look divine." "How the hell else should I look?

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

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

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

So many things to see, people to do.

A man who knows that time and the train wait for no man.

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

It's all about the dominant fucking paradigm, Shadow.

Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.

He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.