Inkheart Book Quotes & Sayings

Abul l'-Qasim al-Iraqi writes of such a tree, [...] 'Materia Prima', which can produce the form of the elixir, is obtained from one single tree, which grows in the 'lands of the West'. It has two branches, which are too high to anyone who would eat its fruit to reach without labour and effort, and two others whose fruit is drier and more wrinkled than that of the former. The flower of the first of the two branches is red, and the flower of the second is between white and black. The tree has two further branches, which are weaker and softe rthan th efirst four. The flower of the first of these two branches is black, and that of the second is white and yellow. [...] — Titus Burckhardt

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. — Jamie Redknapp

The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure. — Marjorie Fleming

Outside, the moon is a thin, luminous scrape and the stars throb weakly above the sea. — Liz Jensen

I just don't have time to get old! — Dolly Parton

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions. — M.F.K. Fisher

My brain? That's my second favorite organ. — Woody Allen

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out. — Scott Wood

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Knowledge is power, but execution trumps knowledge, so it's what you do from here that will matter. — Anthony Robbins

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. — A.A. Milne

How insane would it have been to know Chloe in my early twenties? We would have torn this place up, and probably lasted only a weekend. Isn't it amazing how you meet the person you're meant to meet, when you're supposed to meet her? — Christina Lauren