She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.
Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man
Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about e...
It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.
It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;
It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.
It begins, as most things begin, with a song.
It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the s...
I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then.
I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.
I was their first book.
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.
I loved to love what she loved.
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just .
I like stories where women save themselves.
I am the most miserable person who ever lived, he said... You are young, and in love, said Primus. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
How old are you?About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did, Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, makin...