A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
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.
Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.