Cornelia Funke: Quotes about books

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

“Stories never really end… even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”

“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”

“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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 away”

“Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?”

“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.”