Quotes from work

Inkheart trilogy

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

“I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor”

“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 the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”

“Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”

“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”

“What are stories for if we don't learn from them?”

“Youcrazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"

But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!”

“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, every book was contained in every other!”

“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

“All writers are insane!”

“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”

“Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.”

“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”

“Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?”

“She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.”

“Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again.”