Faces Quotes by Cornelia Funke

8 Faces quotes by Cornelia Funke

Funke’s eight lines give a quick taste of how the fantasy author thinks about the faces that populate her worlds, from heroes to hidden selves.

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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she…

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Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its…

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I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other…

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Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this…

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You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like…

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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in…

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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

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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…

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“For a moment Dustfinger felt as if he had never been away- as if he had simply had a bad dream, and the memory…

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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?

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“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…

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“Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he…

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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the…

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Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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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…

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Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking…

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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.…

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Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The…

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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out…

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