“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”

—  Neil Gaiman , book Coraline

Coraline (2002)

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English fantasy writer 1960

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