Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
• Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I…
• 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 away,…
• 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!"…
• Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.
• Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.
• What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says…
• Believe, believe, believe
• you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never…
• believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat
• They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the…
• Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and…
• 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…
• Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
• There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
• 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.
• My children were all made from paper and printer's ink...
• Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books…
• Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
• Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

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