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- If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
- If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing…
- This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
- And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target…
- So what? All writers are lunatics!
- They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
- Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too…
- This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger…
- They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the…
- My children were all made from paper and printer's ink...
- Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,…
- From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of…
- 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…
- You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think…
- Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same,…
- She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she…
- When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden,…
- The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of…
- The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of…
- We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
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