Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is a dark fantasy horror children’s novella.
Coraline has been been adapted into a number of different media, including a stop-motion film in 2009.
We have curated a list of best quotes from Coraline novel for you.
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Coraline Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“He was looking at the bubbles as if he was planning to do something very nasty indeed to them.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“There’s a but, isn’t there?” said Coraline. “I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“In danger?’ thought Coraline to herself. It sounded exciting. It didn’t sound like a bad thing. Not really.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“She found herself to be quite worried that something would
jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might
make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
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Quotes from Coraline by Neil Gaiman
“Here you go, she said. I don’t need it anymore. I’m very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people’s death.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You’ll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. “Calling cats,” it confided, “tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“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 (quote from Coraline).
“Most things are pretty magical, it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“I have no plans to love you,” said Coraline. “No matter what. You can’t make me love you.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
Best Coraline Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“The tank fled under the bed in embarrassment.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Mirrors,’ she said, ‘are never to be trusted.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“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 (quote from Coraline).
“The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. ‘Take comfort in this,’ he whispered. ‘Th’art alive. Thou livest.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“You know I love you,’ said the other mother flatly.
‘You have a very funny way of showing it,’ said Coraline.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one…” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
Famous Coraline Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in the brightest daylight, you see the night sky and stars.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Small world,” said Coraline. “It’s big enough for her,” said the cat. “Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“I’m an explorer, -thought Coraline to herself.- And I need all the ways out of here that I can get. So I shall keep walking.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“It won’t hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
Ultimate Coraline Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Because,” she said, “when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“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 (quote from Coraline).
“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“There is nothing down here,’ said the pale thing indistinctly. ‘Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
Popular Coraline Quotes
“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, “Challenge her. There’s no guarantee she’ll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“When you are scared, but you do it anyway, that’s brave.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“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.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.” ~ Neil Gaiman (quote from Coraline).
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