She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

“Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.”

“CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded,…”

“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of…”

“Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.She lived …”