Cornelia Funke Quotes
Cornelia Funke Quotes
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
1757So what? All writers are lunatics!
4903 Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
3569 Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
3625 Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
2176 As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
4658 Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
4412 Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
1802 Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
3574 And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.
2456 Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...
1460 The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
1226 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.
2397 It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
2786 It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..
3077 Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!
1686 Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
1302 If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
2232 I will try to write books until I drop dead.
2492 Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
4959 -You forgot something important!
-What?
-It's under my sweater!
-WHAT?!
-Me!
1868 Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
4779 Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
4067 The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear
2306 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.
2711 Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page
2892 Perhaps she was more like him than he'd thought: her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer's ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world.
2258 If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
2595 Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.
3486 La paura ha tutto un altro sapore quando la si vive dal vero, Meggie, e giocare all’eroe non era così divertente come mi ero immaginato.
2969 Il punto è che credi troppo volentieri a ciò che vuoi credere.
4072 Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.
1466 Io non credo fondamentalmente a nessuno, ormai dovresti saperlo. Siamo tutti bugiardi quando serve.
1756 You'd like him back, too, wouldn't you?"
It was difficult for her to turn her eyes away from Farid's face. "He'll never come back," she whispered, and look at Dustfinger. She didn't have the strength to speak any louder. All her strength was gone, as if Farid had taken it away with him. He had taken everything away from him.
1610 Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.
1206 .......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.
Powerful.
1813 He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.
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