What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.