Cornelia Funke quotes - page 2

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. (Cornelia Funke)
The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox. View quote
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Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. View quote
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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on. View quote
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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
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Writing stories is a kind of magic, too. View quote
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Down there the nights are bright and nobody beleives in the Devil. View quote
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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! View quote
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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else. View quote
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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. View quote
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Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately. View quote
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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face. View quote
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We're all liars when it serves our purpose. View quote
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Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? (Cornelia Funke)
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! View quote
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What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. View quote
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Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder. View quote
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The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls. View quote
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