Cornelia Funke Quotes

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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,…
• How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
• She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate.…
• Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
• a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
• 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 the…
• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of…
• Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus.…
• I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder…
• Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
• I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and…
• Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff…
• Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
• Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else,…
• You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think…
• Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
• What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.
• Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger…
• Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

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