Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

we temper our justice with mercy here; we love the sinner and we hate the sin.

“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?

The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world.

It’s the strangest book I’ve written, it took the longest time to write, and it’s the book I’m proudest of.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.