“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for”
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for”
Cornelia Funke
“Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.”
Cornelia Funke“She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been?”
Cornelia Funke“I will try to write books until I drop dead.”
Cornelia Funke“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?”
Cornelia Funke“If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.”
Cornelia Funke“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
Cornelia Funke“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“Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.”
Cornelia Funke“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”
Cornelia Funke“Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...”
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