I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.