Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

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.

This world is not here for you

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.

many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I love it when a man cooks it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.