If anything is clear, it’s that extreme vetting is designed with animals in mind.
I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.
‘She wants something to love, I think,’ said the cat. ‘Something that isn’t her. She might want something to eat as well. It’s hard to tell with creatures like that.’
who would telephone me whenever my little children moved
quién me llamaría por teléfono cada vez que mis hijos pequeños se mudaran
I was never entirely sure how many flats there were in the house, nor how many of them were occupied.
Nunca estuve del todo seguro de cuántos pisos había en la casa, ni cuántos de ellos estaban ocupados.
I’d wanted to write a story for my daughters that told them something I wished I’d known when I was a boy: that being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
‘It’s Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline,’ said Coraline.
wasn’t the kind of rain you could go out in, it was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the sky and splashed where it landed.
it smelled like something very old and very slow.
Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense
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