I don'w want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?
("Coraline")
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I'll come to you tonight, dear, when it's late, You will not see me you may feel a chill. I'll wait until you sleep, then take my fill,And that will be your future on a plate.They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate.Neil Gaiman
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange.
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What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?
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And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
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