Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

There are so many glowing reasons to feel the joy of life and to be happy.

Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.

Whatever story you create in your life, you deserve your own “Karma” be it good or bad…. - Cocoy McCoy -

Are you scared? he murmured, mouth only a hairbreadth away from hers.A small laugh escaped her. "Not as scared as I should be.

Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but … what?

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.