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You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Cornelia Funke

Book, People, Novelists

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House

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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.

Cornelia Funke

Dream, Reading, Book

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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.

Cornelia Funke

Inspirational, Cheer Up, Book

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

Cornelia Funke

Character, Stories, Inkheart

"Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.

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Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Cornelia Funke

Names, Inkheart, Dread

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

Cornelia Funke

Book, World, Heavy

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Cornelia Funke

Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

Children, Butterfly, Adults

Cornelia Funke (2011). “The Thief Lord”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Cornelia Funke

Book, Pages, Owners

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.625, Scholastic Inc.

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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

Real, Book, Thinking

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Cornelia Funke

Book, Far Away, Hours

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

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She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

Cornelia Funke

Heart, Hands, Felt

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If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

Cornelia Funke

Memories, Book, Reading

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

Cornelia Funke

Flower, Book, Smell

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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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

Children, Thinking, Horror Stories

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Cornelia Funke

Fear, Inkdeath, Fearlessness

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.217, Chicken House

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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Cornelia Funke

Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Cornelia Funke

Heart, Reason, Observers

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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.

Cornelia Funke

Women, Grief, Doubt

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

Cornelia Funke

Sea, Longing, Filled

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

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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

Real, Reading, Character

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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.

Cornelia Funke

Book, Firsts, Theater

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

Cornelia Funke

Book, Reading, Ears

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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So what? All writers are lunatics!

Cornelia Funke

Writing

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.281, Scholastic Inc.

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In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Cornelia Funke

Sometimes, Sickness, Cures

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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