Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

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.

Today, death is your opponent.

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.