Цитаты из книги «Коралина», страница 30
Nothing's changed, little girl [..] And what if you do everything you swore you would? What then? Nothing's changed. You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored. No one will listen to you, not really listen to you. You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don't even get your name right.
The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother’s button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
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– Я и не знала, что у меня есть другая мама, – сказала она осторожно.– Конечно, есть! Они у всех есть, – объяснила ей другая мама, сияя своими глазами-пуговицами. – После обеда тебе, наверное, захочется поиграть с крысами в своей комнате.
"When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave."
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- I swear it, - said the other mother. - I swear it on my own mother's grave.
- Does she have a grave? - asked Coraline.
- Oh yes, - said the other mother. - I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.
“You were wrong!” she told the cat. “There is something there!”
And then it took shape in the mist: a dark house, which loomed at them out of the formless whiteness.
“But that’s—” said Coraline.
“The house you just left,” agreed the cat. “Precisely.”
“Maybe I just got turned around in the mist,” said Coraline.
The cat curled the high tip of its tail into a question mark, and tipped its head to one side. “You might have done,” it said. “I certainly would not. Wrong, indeed.”
“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
“Easy,” said the cat. “Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.”
“Small world,” said Coraline.
“It’s big enough for her,” said the cat. “Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.”
— Привет, — ответила Коралайн. — У себя дома в саду я видела точно такого же кота. Ты, должно быть, другой кот?
Кот покачал головой.
— Вот и нет, — возразил он. — Никакой я не другой! Я — это я. — И отвернулся, оскорбленно сверкнув зелеными глазами. — Вы, люди, так любите распыляться! Коты же, наоборот, всегда цельные. Если ты понимаешь, что я хочу сказать.
“Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses — whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.”Coraline sighed. “You really don't understand, do you?” she said. “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?”“I don't understand,” said the whispery voice.
