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“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“A woman born for tragedy, perhaps, although inclined to be a little silly.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Learn what you can. Use what you learn. You have not failed yet.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“No. I have many mothers. If I am hideous, then we are hideous together. And that made it easier, because in her heart of hearts, she could not believe that her mothers were anything but beautiful.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“the first lesson that Toadling learned, in that strange place, was loneliness.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. '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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Surrounded by child-eating swamp spirits, Toadling felt intensely loved.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“You have crept into my stone of a heart and softened me, to my immense dismay and utter astonishment.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Descartes was wrong, you know, when he said, 'To live well, you must live unseen.' To live well, you must learn to see yourself first. Do you understand what I'm saying?”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“And everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that I’m almost afraid to hold it. Afraid that the spell will break.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“You're still a kid, you know.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“If I'm not swimming as hard as I can, feet thrashing at the waves, I'm drowning.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle