She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

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.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

No one was getting past him.

When I take you in my arms, I wonder how on earth I ever survived without know what that felt like before I met you.

, Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.