Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

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.

I love to read aloud.

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

What a plague love is!

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