We did some things uncharacteristic of us throughout the game. It cost us over the long haul.


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

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
NEIL GAIMAN
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
NEIL GAIMAN
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
NEIL KINNOCK
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
NEIL KENDALL
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
NEIL PEART