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, Coraline
I was reading this book and a sudden mention popped up.
It said that when Neil Gaiman wrote in Coraline “Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” he was actually wrongly/incorrectly quoting G. K. Chesterton
Is it true? Is this a misquote by Neil Gaiman of Chesterton? In which case what is the real quote? I’ll need to look into that...
Makoto: How do I know you'll keep your word?
Junko: I swear it. I swear it on my own sister's grave.
Makoto: Does she have a grave?
Junko: Oh yes, I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.
“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.”