“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”
“How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline.The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.”
“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
“I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.”
“All black, of course. Just like his rotting soul.”