Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us tha... - Neil Gaiman, Coraline

"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."

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

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

"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."