"Inkdeath" Quotes
The final installment of the Inkheart trilogy where the power of words and storytelling collide in a thrilling battle between reality and fiction.
fantasy | 699 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
The best kind of thief is not the one who hides things away. He is the one who steals them back.
If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.
Sometimes one has to do things one doesn't want to, in order to save oneself from something worse.
A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth.
A voice is such a deep, personal thing, the marker of our individuality, perhaps more so even than our faces.
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
When you read a book, you're not looking at words on a page; you're looking at an entire world.
There are many ways to die, but only one way to live: with passion.
