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Cornelia Funke

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HONORE DE BALZAC I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ...
MARK LAWRENCE They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
MARK LAWRENCE Words are immortal -until someone comes along and burns them.
CORNELIA FUNKE It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
CORNELIA FUNKE It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by...
CORNELIA FUNKE Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garmen...
CORNELIA FUNKE We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anythin...
CORNELIA FUNKE My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
CORNELIA FUNKE Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, b...
CORNELIA FUNKE She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if s...
CORNELIA FUNKE Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly
CORNELIA FUNKE The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
CORNELIA FUNKE She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you t...
CORNELIA FUNKE What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the ...
CORNELIA FUNKE All writers are insane!
CORNELIA FUNKE You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
CORNELIA FUNKE I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor
CORNELIA FUNKE Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our ...
CORNELIA FUNKE The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms...
CORNELIA FUNKE You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b...
CORNELIA FUNKE Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the...
CORNELIA FUNKE When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled asid...
CORNELIA FUNKE There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w...
CORNELIA FUNKE It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
CORNELIA FUNKE Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anythin...
CORNELIA FUNKE Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
CORNELIA FUNKE If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd...
CORNELIA FUNKE This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don...
CORNELIA FUNKE Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if so...
CORNELIA FUNKE Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
CORNELIA FUNKE When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
CORNELIA FUNKE The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only...
CORNELIA FUNKE The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
CORNELIA FUNKE Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
CORNELIA FUNKE I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
CORNELIA FUNKE Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
CORNELIA FUNKE I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
CORNELIA FUNKE In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
CORNELIA FUNKE I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages.

I pledge to use books...
CORNELIA FUNKE What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
CORNELIA FUNKE Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again.
CORNELIA FUNKE Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle...
CORNELIA FUNKE Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
CORNELIA FUNKE I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like count...
CORNELIA FUNKE The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, p...
CORNELIA FUNKE It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly...
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears c...
CORNELIA FUNKE Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you reall...
CORNELIA FUNKE Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.
CORNELIA FUNKE For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into ...
CORNELIA FUNKE You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
CORNELIA FUNKE Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
CORNELIA FUNKE I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
CORNELIA FUNKE They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're...
CORNELIA FUNKE There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
CORNELIA FUNKE She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. P...
CORNELIA FUNKE He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
CORNELIA FUNKE And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for exam...
CORNELIA FUNKE So what? All writers are lunatics!
CORNELIA FUNKE Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants ...
CORNELIA FUNKE She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Fari...
CORNELIA FUNKE He felt Death reaching out to him. But all of a sudden there was something else, too: words. Words t...
CORNELIA FUNKE Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn...
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CORNELIA FUNKE He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never kn...
CORNELIA FUNKE Farid had brought an invisible guest with him.
Fear.
CORNELIA FUNKE Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to ...
CORNELIA FUNKE A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A story that grows and ...
CORNELIA FUNKE The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal....
CORNELIA FUNKE He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When...
CORNELIA FUNKE Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfort...
CORNELIA FUNKE believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of ...
CORNELIA FUNKE You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"

But her opinion did no...
CORNELIA FUNKE This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?'
What a question! Farid never asked himself such...
CORNELIA FUNKE If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
CORNELIA FUNKE There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
CORNELIA FUNKE And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his t...
CORNELIA FUNKE a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
CORNELIA FUNKE Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do lo...
CORNELIA FUNKE She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhapp...
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Words are immortal -until someone comes along and burns them.
CORNELIA FUNKE It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
CORNELIA FUNKE It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by...
CORNELIA FUNKE Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garmen...
CORNELIA FUNKE We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anythin...
CORNELIA FUNKE My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
CORNELIA FUNKE Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, b...
CORNELIA FUNKE She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if s...
CORNELIA FUNKE Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly
CORNELIA FUNKE The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
CORNELIA FUNKE She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you t...
CORNELIA FUNKE What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the ...
CORNELIA FUNKE All writers are insane!
CORNELIA FUNKE You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
CORNELIA FUNKE I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor
CORNELIA FUNKE Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our ...
CORNELIA FUNKE The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms...
CORNELIA FUNKE You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b...
CORNELIA FUNKE Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the...
CORNELIA FUNKE When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled asid...
CORNELIA FUNKE There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w...
CORNELIA FUNKE It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
CORNELIA FUNKE Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anythin...
CORNELIA FUNKE Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
CORNELIA FUNKE If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd...
CORNELIA FUNKE This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don...
CORNELIA FUNKE Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if so...
CORNELIA FUNKE Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
CORNELIA FUNKE Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the...
CORNELIA FUNKE When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
CORNELIA FUNKE The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only...
CORNELIA FUNKE The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
CORNELIA FUNKE Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
CORNELIA FUNKE I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
CORNELIA FUNKE Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
CORNELIA FUNKE I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
CORNELIA FUNKE In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
CORNELIA FUNKE I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages.

I pledge to use books...
CORNELIA FUNKE What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
CORNELIA FUNKE Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again.
CORNELIA FUNKE Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle...
CORNELIA FUNKE Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
CORNELIA FUNKE I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like count...
CORNELIA FUNKE The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, p...
CORNELIA FUNKE It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly...
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears c...
CORNELIA FUNKE Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you reall...
CORNELIA FUNKE Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.
CORNELIA FUNKE For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into ...
CORNELIA FUNKE You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
CORNELIA FUNKE Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
CORNELIA FUNKE Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
CORNELIA FUNKE I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
CORNELIA FUNKE They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're...
CORNELIA FUNKE There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
CORNELIA FUNKE She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. P...
CORNELIA FUNKE He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
CORNELIA FUNKE And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for exam...
CORNELIA FUNKE So what? All writers are lunatics!
CORNELIA FUNKE Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants ...
CORNELIA FUNKE She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Fari...
CORNELIA FUNKE He felt Death reaching out to him. But all of a sudden there was something else, too: words. Words t...
CORNELIA FUNKE Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn...
CORNELIA FUNKE with every new day, Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as spider's...
CORNELIA FUNKE My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, a...
CORNELIA FUNKE But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
CORNELIA FUNKE Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a ...
CORNELIA FUNKE He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never kn...
CORNELIA FUNKE Farid had brought an invisible guest with him.
Fear.
CORNELIA FUNKE Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to ...
CORNELIA FUNKE A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A story that grows and ...
CORNELIA FUNKE The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal....
CORNELIA FUNKE He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When...
CORNELIA FUNKE Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfort...
CORNELIA FUNKE believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of ...
CORNELIA FUNKE You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"

But her opinion did no...
CORNELIA FUNKE This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?'
What a question! Farid never asked himself such...
CORNELIA FUNKE If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
CORNELIA FUNKE There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
CORNELIA FUNKE And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his t...
CORNELIA FUNKE a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
CORNELIA FUNKE Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do lo...
CORNELIA FUNKE She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhapp...
CORNELIA FUNKE Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they ...
CORNELIA FUNKE Una storia cambia continuamente vestito. Una storia cresce e germoglia come un qualcosa di vivo! Que...
CORNELIA FUNKE - Nulla è eterno, Balbulus. E che cosa c'è di meglio, per le parole, che essere cantate in giro? S...
CORNELIA FUNKE -You forgot something important!
-What?
-It's under my sweater!
-WHAT?!
-Me!
CORNELIA FUNKE You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...
CORNELIA FUNKE My children were all made from paper and printer's ink...
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CORNELIA DEKKER You will have an opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of Orthodox iconography.
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CORNELIA MERCHANT She dove into school and its activities. I truly believe she was destined for great things.
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CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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CORNELIA MAUDE SPELMAN Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
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