Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

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 know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

We live in a time where women should feel empowered; they have every right. I've always been attracted to women who show [that they can do anything].