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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Cornelia Funke

Memories, Book, Pages

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

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She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Cornelia Funke

Children, Chocolate, Unhappy

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Cornelia Funke

Heart, Taste, Heart Love

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.435, Chicken House

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She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

Cornelia Funke

Kings, Book, Hero

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?

Cornelia Funke

Daughter, Spring, Book

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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

Cornelia Funke

Night, Sky, White

Cornelia Funke (2010). “Reckless”, p.67, Hachette UK

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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

Cornelia Funke

Sweet, Father, Passion

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All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

Cornelia Funke

Children, Book, Dust

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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

Cornelia Funke

Heart, Voice, Giving

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.304, Scholastic Inc.

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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

Children, Book, Stories

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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

Cornelia Funke

Dream, Dust, Gold

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Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

Cornelia Funke

Fire, Water, Said

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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Cornelia Funke

Book, Strange Places, Ideas

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Cornelia Funke

Dog, Horse, Pigs

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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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I wish I had more time to visit schools.

Cornelia Funke

School, Wish, More Time

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Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Cornelia Funke

Children, School, Speak English

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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Cornelia Funke

Book, People, Fairytale

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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Cornelia Funke

Sentimental

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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Cornelia Funke

Father, Book, Cutting

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Cornelia Funke

Father, Book, Library

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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

Cornelia Funke

Daughter, Mother, Son

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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

Cornelia Funke

Water, Black, Done

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

Cornelia Funke

Lonely, Block, Friendly

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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

Cornelia Funke

Beautiful, Heart, New Day

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