A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one’s soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man’s sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the...
В реальной жизни всё точно так же. Самые страшные убийцы выходят сухими из воды и живут себе припеваючи до глубокой старости, тогда как добрые и хорошие, порой самые лучшие, погибают. Отчего же в книг...
«Cara Elinor, evidentemente lei è nata nella storia sbagliata» osservò Dita di Polvere. Erano le prime parole che pronunciava dall’inizio del viaggio.«Nella storia sbagliata? Vorrà dire nell’epoca sba...
Yes, everything will be all right, thanks to Elinor! She could have sung and danced (not that she was much of a dancer and she was sitting in a car).
Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he could really protect her from Capricorn and Basta and all the others. But he could...
Why did such truths only reveal themselves after they’d become lies?
What’s so unusual about that, princess? he asked quietly. Do you know how your story ends?
Was waren sie doch alle für Schauspieler! Alle, wie sie dastanden. Aber was spielten sie? Das, was die anderen sehen wollten? Das, was sie selbst gern sein wollten?
Vielleicht gehören wir alle nicht nur in eine Geschichte.
There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts.
The Magpie took off her glove and looked scornfully at him. Basta likes to use snakes to scare woman that reject his advances. It didn't work with Resa. How did it go exactly - didn't she finally put...
Sometimes we think we know people at first sight, he said. As though we’d met them a hundred times before, in another life, in another world. And then we realize that we know nothing. How did they loo...
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be...
My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last.
Life is so simple when you’re young, though of course that’s not what it feels like to the young.
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..
In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the bo...
I woke up and knew he was gone. Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things. David Almond, Skellig