Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• So what? All writers are lunatics!
• Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her.…
• 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…
• When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
• Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out…
• You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
• 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.
• I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
• Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too…
• perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.
• 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…
• 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…
• This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen…
• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.
• It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
• The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

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