She hoped it wasn't a spider. Spiders made Coraline intensely uncomfortable.

“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, bec…”

“You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem,…”

“The head of the sledgehammer was cold, icy cold, and it touched his forehead as…”

“Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants u…”