Cornelia Funke: Story

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“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 trilogy

Source: Inkspell

“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 trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“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

“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 the secrets?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“What are stories for if we don't learn from them?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

“Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“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 trilogy

Source: Inkspell

“My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Variant: Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
Source: Inkheart