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Coraline Quotes

“Be clever, Miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go!”
— Sweet Ghost Girl (voice), Coraline
Tagged: clever, never let you go, Winning
“T'ain't all bad, miss. Thou art alive. Thou art still living.”
— Ghost Boy (voice), Coraline
Tagged: ain't all bad, survive
“Don't remember our names, but I 'member my true mommy.”
— Ghost Boy (voice), Coraline
Tagged: Memory, mommy
“ [screaming] Don't leave me! Don't leave me! I'll die without you!”
— Father / Other Father (voice), Coraline
Tagged: Separation Anxiety, Codependency
“[singing] Makin' up a song about Coraline/ She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine/ She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who's ever laid their eyes on Coraline/ When she comes around exploring/ Mom and I will never ever make it boring/ Our eyes will be on Coraline!”
— Neil Gaiman, Henry Selick, Coraline
Tagged: Song, song tribute, Peach, Doll, Boring
“He's not drunk, Mom, he's just eccentric.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: Drunk, eccentric
“Oh my twitchy, witchy girl. I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge. I give you bowls of ice... cream. I give you lots of kisses. I give you lots of hugs. But I never give you sandwiches with grease and worms and mung... beans.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: Witchy, Porridge, ice cream, hugs, Mung Beans
“Coraline Jones: I can see you don't have button eyes, but... if you're the same cat, how can you talk?

Cat: I just can.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: talking Cats
“Coraline Jones: How can you walk away from something and then come towards it?

Cat: Walk around the world.

Coraline Jones: Small world.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: round earth, Small world, going and coming
“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.”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Braveness, Courage, Bravery
“What if everyone got what they wanted? What then?”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Life, Choices
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Motivational, strength, Fairytales, Powerful
“It sounded like her mother. Coraline went into the kitchen, where the voice had come from. A woman stood in the kitchen with her back to Coraline. She looked a little like Coraline’s mother. Only . . .

Only her skin was white as paper.
Only she was taller and thinner.
Only her fingers were too long, and they never stopped moving, and her dark red fingernails were curved and sharp.


‘Coraline?’ the woman said. ‘Is that you?’


And then she turned around. Her eyes were big black buttons”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: creepy, Fear
“When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Bravery, Courage, Fear
“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?”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams
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