Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 6

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• So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.

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  Dream, Wall, Book

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• Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

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  Fall, Tears, Taste

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• What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

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  Book, House, World

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

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• When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.

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  Curiosity, Strange, Forgotten

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.462, Scholastic Inc.

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• Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

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  Guests, Invisible

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.47, Chicken House

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• Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

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  Believe, Way, Curious

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• Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

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  Dying, Killing, Easy

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• Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

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  Book, Doe, Stories

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• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

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  Silly, Past, Laughing

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

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  Morning, Real, Writing

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• Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

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  Paper, Nightmare, Faster

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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  Men, Knives, Faces

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.399, Chicken House

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• Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?

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  Blood, White, Bird

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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• They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

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  People, World, Said

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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• believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

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  Believe, Heart, Light

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Tintenblut”, p.309, Dressler Verlag

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• She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

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  Doors, Enough

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

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  Dark, Animal, Night

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• Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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  People, Worry, Able

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

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  Home, Eye, His Eyes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.33, Chicken House

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• Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

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  Made

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• Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

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  Men, Yesterday, Long

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• I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

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  World, Knows

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Dragon Rider”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

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  Air, Voice, Empty

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?

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  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

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  Book, Fall, Weather

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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