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

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

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

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.