Inkdeath Quotes

• 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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• 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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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, Unhappy

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• Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Pay

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

  Cornelia Funke

  Fear, Fearlessness

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

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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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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Odd

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.51, Chicken House

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• Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

  Cornelia Funke

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

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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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• I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

  Cornelia Funke

  Teaching, Thinking, Our World

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