Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

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

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.