Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Novelists

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House

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• The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Reading, Book

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• Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Book

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• A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Character, Stories, Inkheart

  "Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.

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• Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

  Cornelia Funke

  Names, Inkheart, Dread

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Butterfly, Adults

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “The Thief Lord”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Pages, Owners

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.625, Scholastic Inc.

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• Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, World, Heavy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Far Away, Hours

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

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• She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Hands, Felt

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• Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Thinking, Horror Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inkdeath

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

  Cornelia Funke

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Book, Smell

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

  Cornelia Funke

  Fear, Inkdeath, Fearlessness

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.217, Chicken House

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• Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

  Cornelia Funke

  Women, Grief, Doubt

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• Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, Reading, Character

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• When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Firsts, Theater

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Taken, Reading

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• In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

  Cornelia Funke

  Sometimes, Sickness, Cures

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dragons, Years, Imagination

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• Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Dark, Blue

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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