Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

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

We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall.

“The mice have a message for you,” he whispered. Coraline didn’t know what to say. “The message is this. Don’t go through the door.”

he typed. “Go away,” he said cheerfully as she walked

“when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?” “Easy,” said the cat. “Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.” “Small world,” said Coraline. “It’s big enough for her,” said the cat. “Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.”