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- Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
- The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find…
- 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…
- You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
- The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen…
- What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says…
- Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them…
- Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books…
- 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,…
- 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…
- A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
- Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the…
- So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
- 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…
- 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…
- She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them…
- What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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