Cornelia Funke Quotes

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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?
• Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
• What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
• He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to…
• The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of…
• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of…
• We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
• The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
• It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very…
• It's a cruel world, don't you think?
• What a plague love is!
• Reality is a fragile thing.
• Nobody loves only once.
• She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?
• Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
• Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.
• I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
• You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
• Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade,…

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