We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'm an explorer, -thought Coraline to herself.- And I need all the ways out of here that I can get. So I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
