Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 4

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• Words are immortal - Elinor

  Cornelia Funke

  Immortal

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• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

  Cornelia Funke

  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• What a plague love is!

  Cornelia Funke

  Love Is, Plague

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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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Fall, Weather

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

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

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Air, Voice, Empty

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

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• Reality is a fragile thing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Reality, Fragile Things, Fragile

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• Nobody loves only once.

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• The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, Foxes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.62, Chicken House

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

  Cornelia Funke

  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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Men, Yesterday, Long

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

  Cornelia Funke

  World, Knows

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

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• Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Doors, Curiosity

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• -You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweaters, Important

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• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Stories, Goes On

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love to read aloud.

  Cornelia Funke

  Love To Read

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• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Grandmother, Stories, Very Good

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• Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, World, Mysterious

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

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• Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

  Cornelia Funke

  Teeth, Lines, Poor

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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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• And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

  Cornelia Funke

  Names, Example, Conversation

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• Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Monsters, Looks

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

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• Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Shoes, Different

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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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