“ 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
“ Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you could fill a hundred houses like this one to the roof with all the books that have disa… Cornelia Funke
“ A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one’s soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man’s sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the… Cornelia Funke
“ ¿Ves esos nombres? -preguntó señalando las letras cinceladas que hablaban de personas ya desaparecidas-. Detrás de cada nombre hay una familia, una madre o un padre, hermanos, acaso una esposa. Si uno… Cornelia Funke
“ When the shadows of your life haunt you, and you bitterly miss the ones you once loved, then only sleep can grant oblivion Cornelia Funke
“ You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. Cornelia Funke
“ What’s so unusual about that, princess? he asked quietly. Do you know how your story ends? Cornelia Funke
“ What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house.You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Megg… Cornelia Funke
“ What a coward she was after all! She tried to think of some hero out of one of her books,someone whose skin she could slip into, to make her feel stronger, bigger, braver. Why couldshe remember nothin… Cornelia Funke
“ Was waren sie doch alle für Schauspieler! Alle, wie sie dastanden. Aber was spielten sie? Das, was die anderen sehen wollten? Das, was sie selbst gern sein wollten? Cornelia Funke
“ There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife. Cornelia Funke
“ The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts. Cornelia Funke
“ The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. Cornelia Funke
“ The Magpie took off her glove and looked scornfully at him. Basta likes to use snakes to scare woman that reject his advances. It didn't work with Resa. How did it go exactly - didn't she finally put… Cornelia Funke
“ Sometimes we think we know people at first sight, he said. As though we’d met them a hundred times before, in another life, in another world. And then we realize that we know nothing. How did they loo… Cornelia Funke
“ Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be… Cornelia Funke
“ Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyho… Cornelia Funke
“ My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last. Cornelia Funke
“ Life is so simple when you’re young, though of course that’s not what it feels like to the young. Cornelia Funke
