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- I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to…
- There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
- 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…
- There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,…
- 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...
- 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 think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder…
- 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…
- 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…
- What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of…
- She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?
- Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
- All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away…
- Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume…
- What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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