💬 Quotes

"The evening is the best part of the day. You have done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it."

"Whatever I did, he always beat me. It was a rivalry that I had constructed in my own mind, and it turned out to be the driving force of my existence at Devon."

"Fear seized my stomach like a cramp. I didn't care what I said to him, I didn't even care if he heard me. I just had to get it out."

"I am not a hero. I am a monster who is capable of love, but I am still a monster."

"You are my heart, my soul, my breath. Without you, I am nothing but a hollow shell waiting for the sun to rise."

"Duty is a heavy cloak to wear, but it is the only thing that keeps us from being just another beast in the night."

"Death is not the end. It is merely the transition to a place where the pain of this world cannot reach you."

"She was the light in the dark, the reason I finally dared to believe that my curse could be redeemed."

"The past is a graveyard, but if you look closely, you can find the flowers that grew from the sorrow."

"I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of what I was going to do."

"I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectation to hope for, and indeed no desires for."

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

"It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their circumstances with those that are worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to their own disadvantage."

"I began to comfort myself with the kind of comfort that had been forced upon me: that I was a king and lord of all this country indefeasibly."

"There is a secret power and influence in the Spirit of God, we know not how, to bring the thoughts of men to pass, even against the most distant and improbable expectations."

"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."