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Mother Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- 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."…
- 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…
- 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…
- You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.
- Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.
- Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We…
- Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong…
- You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a…
- How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She…
- Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
- There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it…
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