enter the world of things as they are
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soo...
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.
You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.
You are ignorant, boy, said Miss Lupescu. This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.
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...
What about volcanoes?What about them?All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.
We were expecting to see you at the market.Yes. Well. Some people thought I was dead. I was forced to keep a low profile.Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?The marquis looked at Richard...
We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us. You're joking.Wish I was.
Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy.
This fight was old, Shadow thought, older than even Mr. Alice knew, and he was thinking that even as the creature's talons raked his chest. It was the fight of man against monster, and it was old as t...
They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all t...
There, that wasn’t as bad as I had feared, he said cheerfully. I’ve got my hammer back. And I had a good dinner. Let’s go home.
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely a...
There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting.That is the tale; the rest is detail.There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is...
There are some people who keep track of every day and every hours, and there are people who don't, and Coraline's parents were solidly in the second camp.
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel th...
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. F...