Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn’t ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place.
Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
Sometimes, when you’re so sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry.
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
When you open a book it’s like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
Sometimes it’s a good thing we don’t remember things half as well as books do.
Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
A reader doesn’t really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. – Elinor.
I wish you luck,? she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she’d ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.
All writers are insane!
Don’t let it worry you, not being able to speak,‘Dustfinger had often told her. ‘People tend not to listen anyway, right?
Killing is easy,” said Mo, “Dying is harder...
A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there’s a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step.
They’re all cruel,′ he said. ‘The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don’t see the cruelty in your world right away, it’s better hidden, but it’s there all the same.