"“And nothing can stop it?” “Nothing I know of,” he replied sadly. “The best way to stop this is to not allow it to st…"

"“Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.”"

"“You’re crazy!” “Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who’s crazier? The crazy or the crazy who…"

"“I’ll tell you what love is,” I told her. “It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, tr…"

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransferenc…"

"“Write is only the word we use to describe the recording process,” replied Snell as we walked along. “The Well of Los…"

"Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narr…"

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ul…"

"“Don’t believe this,” murmured Miss Havisham. “It’s all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence.”"

"The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife."