And all was well.
Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you could fill a hundred houses like this one to the roof with all the books that have disa...
After all, she said, many people here have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different than them—so how would it be for little people wit...
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
A child in the woods. A child with an army.
¡No son historias, Lengua de Brujo, es la pura verdad! ¿Es que ya no la reconoces cuando la ves? Cierto: es una chica fea y no es agradable mirarla a la cara.
—¿[Matar] es fácil?«Sí —pensó Mo—. Sí, lo es... una vez que en tu pecho late un segundo corazón, frío y de aristas duras como la espada que portas. Unas gotas de odio y furia, unas semanas de miedo y...
Знаете, я верю, что на страницах книги всегда остаётся что-то от её владельца.
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
She had thought the chewing and digesting were meant literally and wondered, horrified, why Mo had hung on his workshop door the words of someone who vandalized books.
She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
No one saw firedrake as he made his escape along the canal.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las páginas impresas.
One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring-clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked usef...
Det var kejsarinnans far som hade stiftat en lag, att föremål, djur och människor med magiska egenskaper var skyldiga att rapporteras. För det var ju inte lätt att regera i en värld där ett guldträd k...
A mirror hung between the shelves.Clara stepped in front of it and let her fingers run over the silver roses that covered the frame. She had never seen anything so beautiful. The glass they surrounded...
If you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy,...