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I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

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Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

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The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as...more

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It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were ther...more

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I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

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And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coraline to the cat. ‘It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t s...more

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She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

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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 ea...more

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She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was sca...more

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The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since deci...more

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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

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Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since...more

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She was the storm, she was the lightning...