Cornelia Funke

Author

1958-12-10

Quotes by 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.

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• 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.

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• You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

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• .......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.

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• If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

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• 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.

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• She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

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• I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

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• He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. 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.

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• -You forgot something important!-What?-It's under my sweater!-WHAT?!-Me!

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

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• Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

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• Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

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• Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

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• It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

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• So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

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• 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.

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• It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

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• 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.

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