Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page. Cornelia Funke More Quotes by Cornelia Funke More Quotes From Cornelia Funke They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same. Cornelia Funke said people world 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 light heart believe you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen Cornelia Funke solitude book people I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close. Cornelia Funke girl men book Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness? Cornelia Funke inkdeath pay book What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. Cornelia Funke inkheart tape stuff It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing. Cornelia Funke silly laughing past You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas. Cornelia Funke real writing morning Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. Cornelia Funke nightmare faster paper 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 enough doors Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder. Cornelia Funke killing dying easy Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word. Cornelia Funke curious believe way Everyone is small at night. Cornelia Funke night The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus Cornelia Funke written-word spoken-word insects Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok? Cornelia Funke inkheart hey way Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. Cornelia Funke somewhere-else heart animal Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil. Cornelia Funke devil night believe I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things. Cornelia Funke different-things dishes different Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine. Cornelia Funke fine-wine fine wine I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor Cornelia Funke inkheart pages stories