Bloomsbury Children's Books

Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?’

it smelled like something very old and very slow.

‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.’