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For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpant in his hand and rend him.
Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted.
Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw his entrail...and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flame sof hell consume him forever.
Curse on book thieves, fromt he monastery of San pedro, Barcelon, Spain (p. 35)
quoted in Inkheart, chapt 5, p. 45
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass od paper, print and dead man's sentiment. would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?
Solomon Eagle
quoted in Inkheart, chapt. 9, p. 79
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