Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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.

I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye.

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

The day that we've been fearing is upon us.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.