Quotes by : Brian Selznick

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins....

Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn't ask again. Right afterward....

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in....

The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad....

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They....

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like....

You either see it or you don't

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever....