“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”— John Green Related Quotes “It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s web and enchantingly beautiful..”— Cornelia Funke “What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.”— Doug Dorst “Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it…Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.”— Joan Didion