And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

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

Everyone is small at night.

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.

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.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.