Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

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?

Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.