Cornelia Funke citations

“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.”

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”

“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”

“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”

“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”

“Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.”

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

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”

“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.”

“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

“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.”

“Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”

“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”

“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”

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

“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?”