Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 6

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• It's a cruel world, don't you think?

  Cornelia Funke

  Thinking, World, Cruel World

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

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• What a plague love is!

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  Love Is, Plague

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• Reality is a fragile thing.

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  Reality, Fragile Things, Fragile

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• Nobody loves only once.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• Words are immortal - Elinor

  Cornelia Funke

  Immortal

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

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  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.

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  Book, Stories, Goes On

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

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• Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

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  Beautiful, Real, Different

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.416, Scholastic Inc.

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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.

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  Darkness Within, World, Assuming

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

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• The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?

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  Song, Mistake, Flower

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Lasts, Stories, Said

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

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  Children, Shoes, Different

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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?

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  Book, Monsters, Looks

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

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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.

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  Night, World, Mysterious

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

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

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  Grandmother, Stories, Very Good

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• I love to read aloud.

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  Love To Read

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• I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

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  Different, Dishes, Different Things

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• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Dragons, Riders

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• I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

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  Young, Composer

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• This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

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  Book, Wonderful Friends, World

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

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