Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

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.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

I didn't choose to be an actress

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.