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Cornelia Funke Quotes

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Reality is a fragile thing  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Nobody loves only once  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Where did the love come from? What was it made of?  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) What are stories for if we don’t learn from them?  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) I live in Hamburg; that’s in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) 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 Quotes) Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there’s a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Mortimer’s face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he’s obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) -You forgot something important! -What? -It’s under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) 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 Quotes) Let’s run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Children, they’re the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) It was a chilly morning after the night’s rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) What’s that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what’s that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) You really don’t understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Ten minutes can be a long time when you’re waiting with a beating heart for something you don’t understand, something you don’t really want to know.  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) They are shooting the Thief Lord in Venice at the moment  (Cornelia Funke Quotes) Yes, I always imagined living in other places  (Cornelia Funke Quotes)
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