“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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.”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
“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkspell
“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“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
“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!”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkdeath
“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
“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”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkheart
“Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?”Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogySource: Inkdeath
“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