Inkheart Quotes

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. (1.2)

"Is this aunt as peculiar as all the others?" was all she said. Mo had already taken her to visit various relations. Both he and Meggie's mother had large families whose homes, so far as Meggie cou...

She would have loved to surprise Elinor by showing contempt for her precious books, but she couldn't do it. Her curiosity was too much for her…The temptation was stronger than Meggie's pride. (4....

Yes, Meggie was fond of the van, but this morning she hesitated to get in. When Mo finally went back to the house to lock the door, she suddenly felt they would never come back here, that this jour...

Dustfinger looked first at Mo, then at Meggie with an expression of incredulity on his face. "You haven't told her?" Meggie heard him ask in a low voice. (3.27)

"And I said, 'Yes, yes, all right, I know who you are, you're Dustfinger—I even know your name, you see.' At which he cowered in awe before me—a magician, he thought, who seemed to know all abo...

Dustfinger? What kind of a name was that? Meggie couldn't remember ever hearing it before, yet it sounded familiar, like a distant memory that wouldn't take shape properly. (1.25)

"I doubt he himself has any idea what it's like to be so paralyzed by fear that you feel small and insignificant. But he knows just how to arouse that fear and spread it, in people's homes and thei...