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

"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."

"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."

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

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