" 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 "

― Cornelia Funke , Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath (The Inkheart Trilogy #1-3)