Coraline Quotes

“Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It's Coraline, not Caroline. Coraline.' said Coraline.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“No. I'm not the other anything. I'm me.
(Não. Eu não sou outro, nada. Eu sou eu.)”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.”

Coraline sighed. “You really don’t understand, do you?” she said. “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? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Coraline patted its hairless head. . . 'Poor thing,' she said. 'You're just a thing she made and then threw away.'
The thing nodded vigorously; as it nodded, the left button-eye fell off and clattered on to the concrete floor.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“She flipped through a book her mother was reading about native people in a distant country, how everyday they would take pieces of white silk and draw on them in wax, then dip the silks in dye, then draw on them more in wax and dye them some more, then boil the wax out in hot water, and then finally, throw the now beautiful cloths on a fire and burn them to ash.

It seemed particularly pointless to Coraline, but she hoped that the people enjoyed it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline