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- My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
- Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a…
- Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more…
- Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her…
- Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out…
- I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
- Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open…
- He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!"…
- Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
- Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the…
- Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus.…
- 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…
- Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else,…
- 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…
- A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
- Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in…
- 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…
- What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
- Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain…
- Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that…
- Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
- My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
- So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different…
- We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a…
- But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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