Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you’d be able to find whatever you were looking for.
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.
If you’ve ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.
I think when I’m drawing, I’m seeing what’s happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.
He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you’d be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.
She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. “How did you learn to do that?” asked Hugo. “Books,” answered Isabelle.
A friend suggested that I get a job at a children’s book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I’ve ever gotten.
Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera – I don’t have to close one eye like everyone else.
I’ve always loved children’s books – it’s not that I didn’t like them, I just didn’t think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did...
Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.