Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

It's a cruel world, don't you think?

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

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

My son always says I like very weird music.