She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

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?

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

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

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.