Quote by Neil Gaiman

“She hoped it wasn't a spider. Spiders made Coraline intensely uncomfortable.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in…

— Richard Flanagan

“Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.”

— Kate DiCamillo

“...he was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade...”

— Robert R. McCammon

“Strangest of all, however, was the deep recess in the creature’s skull; it looked almost like a bowl, with water sloshing around inside.”

— Bella Forrest

“Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but…

— George Orwell

“I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.”

— Jim Butcher

“Coraline also explored for animals. She found a hedgehog, and a snakeskin )but no snake), and a rock that looked just like a frog,…

— Neil Gaiman

“It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.”

— Rick Riordan