If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

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 love to read aloud.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

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.