He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.