Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

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