Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.