"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."
"It sounded like her mother.Coraline went into the kitchen,where the voice had come frome.A woman stood in the kitchen with her back to Coraline.She looked a little like Coraline 's mother.Only... Only her skins was white as paper."
"And he said that wasn't brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung, said Coraline to the cat. It was't brave because he wasn 't scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses when he knew the wasps were there when he was really scared. That was "