Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
• Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You…
• All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away…
• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds…
• Words are immortal - Elinor
• Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain…
• -You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
• Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that…
• Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far…
• Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
• Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume…
• The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your…
• My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
• Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his…
• Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way…
• The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
• So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different…
• She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them…
• Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the…

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