Dustfinger Quotes

• Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Princess, Mean, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

  Cornelia Funke

  Happiness, Heart, Being In Love

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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?

  Cornelia Funke

  People, Worry, Able

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

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• And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stupid, Taken, Heart

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• What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

  Cornelia Funke

  Princess, Stories, Matter

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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

  Cornelia Funke

  Lasts, Stories, Said

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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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?

  Cornelia Funke

  Blood, White, Bird

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

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Home, Eye, His Eyes

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

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• Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Darkness Within, World, Assuming

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Curiosity, Strange, Forgotten

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

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• He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Stories, Ears

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• This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.' With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. '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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dark, Thinking, Hair

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

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