Cornelia Funke - Children Quotes

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

Cornelia Funke

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

Cornelia Funke

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

Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know. Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. Well, children all have to belong to somebody, he muttered. Do you belong to someone? That's different. Because you're a grown-up?

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