Cornelia Funke: Trending quotes (page 2)

“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”

“Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.”

“All writers are insane!”

“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 books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.”

“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 now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.”

“There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.”

“My children were all made from paper and printer's ink…”

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

“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 heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”

“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

“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, every book was contained in every other!”

“Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.”

“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”

“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”