Cornelia Funke Short Quotes

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

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Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

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Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

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I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

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Words, words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

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

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A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

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Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last.

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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

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

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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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

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

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

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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

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

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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words, just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....

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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

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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

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