Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

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.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

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.

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.