We are small but we are many, we are many we are small; we were here before you rose, we will be here when… — Neil Gaiman

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

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.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.