“Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.”
― Inkdeath
― Inkdeath
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
― Inkdeath
― Inkdeath
“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”
― Inkdeath
― Inkdeath
“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
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