Цитаты из книги Coraline

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

Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

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?

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

"Small world", said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies."

She walked into the drawing room and looked at the door. She had the feelling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

Coraline took a deep breath and stepped into the darkness, where strange voices whispered and distant winds howled. She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow.

youpeople have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

The room was dark. The only light came from the hall, and Coraline, who was standing in the doorway, cast a huge and distorted shadow onto the drawing room carpet - she look like a thin giant woman.