There are some people who keep track of every day and every hours, and there are people who don't, and Coraline's parents were solidly in the second camp.

“Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other p…”

“Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful pot…”

“I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?”

“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from…”