It's a cruel world, don't you think?
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?