The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

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.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.

Success is all about patience.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.