There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one...

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

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

MY Life is my masterpiece. My work is my worship.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

To Be Trained Is To Accomplish The Discovered Goal

Candy Crowley's hair is PERFECT!!

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.