Cornelia Funke - Heart Quotes

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Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

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

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

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

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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

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The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?

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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

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