But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.


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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
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The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
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For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
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There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
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On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
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They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
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The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
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The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
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You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
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Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
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Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
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Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
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We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
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I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
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It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
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Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
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I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
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I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
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Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
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Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
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You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
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