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.

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

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

Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

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 there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’ ‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.