Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exa…”

“How old are you?" said the girl. "What are you doing here? Do you live here? Wh…”

“Let's start a new tomorrow, today.”

“A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside…”