Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“I know you all think I'm a magician, but I'm not. The magic comes out of the books themselves, and I have… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, through the window of a car coming the other way, she caught a glimpse if a stranger's face, then it was… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“For a moment Dustfinger felt as if he had never been away- as if he had simply had a bad dream, and the memory… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And he will have a great aunt called Elinor who tells him there's a world not like this one. A world with neither fairies… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
![“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?” quote by Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba0/cornelia-funke-908_bears_many-book-even-lay-flat-in-the-floor-ope_1080195.jpg)
![“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.” quote by Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31b/cornelia-funke-908_books_a-longing-for-books-is-nothing-compared_333799.jpg)
![“There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and…” quote by Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/639/cornelia-funke-908_adventurer_there-was-another-reason-she-took-her-bo_3074.jpg)
