I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages.I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal.I pledge to use books to open windows to a...
How clear one’s own desires become once they are made impossible.
Her beauty took one’s breath away, like a sudden pain.
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on...
He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This sto...
Girl. Woman. So much more vulnerable. Strong and yet weak. A heart that knew no armor.
Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.
Every soldier had to battle his weaker self. His weaker self had brought Donnersmarck to his knees, trembling. He had screamed it away, he had outrun it, he had drowned it in the blood of others. And...
Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned.
Come Mo aveva detto un giorno, scrivere storie, in fin dei conti, ha un po' a che fare con la magia.
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty,...
Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there’s a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat
And he will have a great aunt called Elinor who tells him there's a world not like this one. A world with neither fairies nor glass men, but with animals who carry their young in a pouch in front of t...
Ah,yes!That...Silvertongue! Orpheus spoke the name in a disparaging tone, as if he couldn't believe that anyone really deserved it.Yes, that's what he's called. How do you know? There was no mistaking...
1 A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT The moon shone in the rocking horse’s eye, and in the mouse’s eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness...
¿Ves esos nombres? -preguntó señalando las letras cinceladas que hablaban de personas ya desaparecidas-. Detrás de cada nombre hay una familia, una madre o un padre, hermanos, acaso una esposa. Si uno...
¿No te parece raro el grosor de un libro cuando lo lees varias veces? –le había preguntado Mo en su último cumpleaños, cuando contemplaban cada uno de sus viejos libros-. Parece como si cada vez algo...
No te preocupes por no poder hablar -solía decirle Dedo Polvoriento-. La gente no suele prestar atención.
A book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.