McKenzie Midge > McKenzie's Quotes

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.'

'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had been, back then.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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

“On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home.

"How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink.

"Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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."
Coraline shivered.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails we have eyes
We were here before you fell
We will be here when you rise.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline