"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."
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"We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions."
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"I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows."
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"I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness."
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"Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
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"There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now."
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"You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing."
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"Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information."
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"Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found."
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"People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."
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"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."
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"I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life."
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"I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line."
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"Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead"
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"I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge."
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"Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight."
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"If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones."
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"I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
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"Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear."
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"But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me."
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