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.

Words are immortal - Elinor

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Everyone is small at night.

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