Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 6

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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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• Everyone is small at night.

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  Night

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• Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

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  Companion, Uneasy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.95, Chicken House

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• you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

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  Book, People, Solitude

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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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• They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

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  Cash, Detectives, Counterfeit

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

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  Princess, Stories, Matter

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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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• The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

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  Blood, Games, Enemy

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• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

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  Flower, Dresses, Rotting

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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

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  Real, People, Unhappy

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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!

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  Father, Stories, Ears

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• He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered.

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  Rain, Hands, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.324, 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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• 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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• 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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• The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

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  Insects, Spoken Word, Written Word

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.289, 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?

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  Blood, White, Bird

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

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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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• I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

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  Dog, Horse, My Dog

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• I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

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  Children, Watches, Watch Movie

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• My son always says I like very weird music.

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  Son, My Son

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