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

“There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such,…”

“It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect yo…”

“None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It'…”

“This is a bright place, filled with frightened people, and fast hard things tha…”