Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil Gaiman
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Gaiman’s direct answer, 8 February 2019, confirms this Coraline epigraph is his own paraphrase of Chesterton; keep Neil Gaiman attribution with that context.
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