💬 Quotes

"Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway."

"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? It would mean nothing."

"The cat had come back. It sat on the wall, watching her. 'You know,' said Coraline, 'I'm coming back for you.' The cat didn't say anything, but its eyes narrowed."

"Names, Coraline thought, are the first things to go after you give up your soul. Only keep your name, and you can always remember who you are."

"You are not real, she told herself. You are a ghost-creation, a nightmare I will wake up from."

"The sky above the house was the color of a bruised plum. It did not look like a real sky."

"Education, wealth, and the pomp of power—how vanity of vanities was stamped upon them all when the pestilence stalked through the land."

"The emotions have no temporal bounds; to see her is to think of her now as the same as she was in the spring, and as she will be in the autumn."

"Directly you get a women's mind leaning upon an old ancient subject like that, you're not safe from the finding of coincidences till doomsday."

"A choir is a choir, no doubt; but let's stick to church-work, and not turn our sacred music into a secular performance."

"The red glow of the candle fell upon her face, and made it look like an angel's, though perhaps an angel a trifle too terrestrial."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

"In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."

"If I have learned anything in this long, cold life, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a woman's will to survive."

"Men tell stories. Women live them. For us, in the end, there is no silver screen, no audience to applaud, no war stories to be told in bars."

"I am not afraid of dying. I am afraid of living without knowing who I am."

"It was not easy to be brave. It was not easy to be good. But it was necessary."

"I loved you more than my life, and I lost you because of my own fear."

"¿Eres tú mi mamá?"

"¡No soy tu mamá! Soy un perro."