Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

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.

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.

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.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.