Cornelia Funke quotes

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. (Cornelia Funke)
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt? View quote
Cornelia Funke
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. View quote
Cornelia Funke
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place. View quote
Cornelia Funke
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. View quote
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Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. View quote
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? View quote
Cornelia Funke
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? View quote
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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. View quote
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The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. (Cornelia Funke)
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. View quote
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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. View quote
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. View quote
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating. View quote
Cornelia Funke
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. View quote
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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. View quote
Cornelia Funke
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. View quote
Cornelia Funke
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus. View quote
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Reality is a fragile thing. View quote
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife. (Cornelia Funke)
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness? View quote
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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. View quote
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I wish I had more time to visit schools. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! View quote
Cornelia Funke