Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

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.

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.