“How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book.”
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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