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This is how hatred begins
with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door. — Teresa R. Funke
with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door. — Teresa R. Funke
Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
— Cornelia Funke
Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?
— Cornelia Funke
Writing stories is a type of magic too.
— Cornelia Funke
Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
— Cornelia Funke
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
— Cornelia Funke
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
— Cornelia Funke
With every new day, Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as spider's webs and enchantingly beautiful
— Cornelia Funke
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
— Cornelia Funke
All writers are insane!
— Cornelia Funke
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
— Cornelia Funke
Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages,
— Cornelia Funke
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
Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.
Clive Barker, Abarat — Cornelia Funke
Clive Barker, Abarat — Cornelia Funke
Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly — Cornelia Funke
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly — Cornelia Funke
Only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.
Powerful. — Cornelia Funke
Powerful. — Cornelia Funke
Love is always a prison.
— Cornelia Funke
Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.
— Cornelia Funke
Odd that your heart didn't simply stop when it hurt so much.
— Cornelia Funke
Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.
— Cornelia Funke
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
— Cornelia Funke
Death has white hounds.
— Cornelia Funke
Loving someone merely meant pain. Nothing but pain.
— Cornelia Funke
Books have to be heavy, because they have the whole world in them.
— 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
She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through ...
— 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
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
— Cornelia Funke
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
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
— Cornelia Funke
Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world's more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.
— Cornelia Funke
Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened.
He was home again. — Cornelia Funke
He was home again. — Cornelia Funke
Love didn't deserve the nice reputation it had.
— Cornelia Funke
Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.
— Cornelia Funke
Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn't chase the bird away.
— Cornelia Funke
We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
— Cornelia Funke
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
— Cornelia Funke
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
— Cornelia Funke
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
— Cornelia Funke
What's that sticky stuff called?
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. — Cornelia Funke
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. — Cornelia Funke
And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.
— Cornelia Funke
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
— Cornelia Funke
He closed the window, and the scents of the past again flooded the room, like a bunch of wilted flowers.
— Cornelia Funke
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
— Cornelia Funke
No. Nothing could make it easier. You lost what you loved. That was death, here as well as there.
— Cornelia Funke
If you're going to start tonight there's no time to waste. Certainly not enough time to finish your quarrel with this dim-witted mushroom-muncher.
— Cornelia Funke
A child in the woods. A child with an army.
— Cornelia Funke
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
— Cornelia Funke
Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!
— Cornelia Funke
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
— Cornelia Funke
What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
— Cornelia Funke
Oh, putrid puffballs! Stop winding us all up like this or I'll tie a knot in your tail!
— Cornelia Funke
My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last.
— Cornelia Funke
Maybe love bore fruit even more poisonous than fear.
— Cornelia Funke
That was what made fighting so easy - you could always choose death rather than captivity.
— Cornelia Funke
The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue
— Cornelia Funke
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
— Cornelia Funke
What a plague love is!
— Cornelia Funke
How clear one's own desires become once they are made impossible.
— Cornelia Funke
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
— Cornelia Funke
Believe, believe, believe
— Cornelia Funke
Perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.
— Cornelia Funke
It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I
— Cornelia Funke
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
— Cornelia Funke
[She] did not reply. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to listen to what her bewildered heart was telling her.
— Cornelia Funke
Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.
— Cornelia Funke
There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
— Cornelia Funke
The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear
— Cornelia Funke
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
— Cornelia Funke
My son always says I like very weird music.
— Cornelia Funke
Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
— Cornelia Funke
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.
— Cornelia Funke
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor — Cornelia Funke
- Elinor — Cornelia Funke
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
— Cornelia Funke
Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
— Cornelia Funke
Oh yes, he was an idiot. He'd always been frightened by how much he needed her. And now it was too late.
— Cornelia Funke
A book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
— Cornelia Funke
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
— Cornelia Funke
Fear was like a beast that only grew fiercer when one gave in to it.
— Cornelia Funke
Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
— Cornelia Funke
Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.
— Cornelia Funke
My voice had bayou gut them slipping out of their story like a bookmark forgotten by a reader between the pages
— Cornelia Funke
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
— Cornelia Funke
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
— Cornelia Funke
Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
— Cornelia Funke
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
— Cornelia Funke
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
— Cornelia Funke
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
— Cornelia Funke
So what? All writers are lunatics!
— Cornelia Funke
Love makes cowards of us all.
— Cornelia Funke