The thing was white, and huge, and swollen. Monstrous, thought Coraline, but also miserable.

“Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to h…”

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. Peopl…”

“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it proper…”

“Things. They came up. That what things do. They come up. I can't be expected to…”