I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

“The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the…”

“It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told yo…”

“So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.”

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”