“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkdeath
“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..”Cornelia Funke
“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.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Youcrazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“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!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear!”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”Cornelia Funke RecklessSource: Reckless
“She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkdeath