Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

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.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.