Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.