Quotes featured in Inkheart

Great book quotes featured in Inkheart:

‘A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within’

Arab Proverb

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‘I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who’

Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child

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‘In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,

In books I see what is yet to come...

All things decay and pass with time...

All fame would fall victim to oblivion

If God had not given mortal men the book to aid them’

Richard de Bury, The Philobiblon

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‘Yet Bastian knew he couldn’t leave without the book. It was clear to him that he had only come to the shop because of this book. It had called him in some mysterious way, because it wanted to be his, because it had somehow always belonged to him’

Michael Ende, The Neverending Story