La sete di storie diminuiva se si poteva viverne una?
It’s always like that in stories: bad things happen but then it all ends happily. And this is a story.
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.- Elinor
Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know. Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. Well, children all have to belong to somebody, he muttered. Do y...
Некоторыми книгами надо наслаждаться, другие - проглатывать; и лишь немногие нужно жевать, а затем хорошо переваривать.
You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead...
Ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.Clive Barker, Abarat
Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!We...
True love, selfless and deep as the oceans in their most fathomless depths. Orlando let the glove run along the thread, which glistened like a ray of sunlight. But I fear this one is not meant for me....
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
She'd fallen in love with the wrong boy. But when did love ever bother about that?
Non far dimenticare all'altro chi era. Dell'amore faceva parte anche questo.
Non c'è niente che sappia consolare meglio di qualche pagina ben scritta quando sei lontano da casa, vero?
Love makes cowards of us all.
In love. [Her] face was burning. She didn't want [him] to say what she herself never put into words. In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?