Cornelia Funke Inkheart Quotes & Sayings

We're all liars when it serves our purpose. — Cornelia Funke

It's a cruel world, don't you think? — Cornelia Funke

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

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. — Cornelia Funke

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. — Cornelia Funke

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink ... — Cornelia Funke

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

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? — Cornelia Funke

Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly — Cornelia Funke

Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as ... as.. She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them seemed to her brave enough for comparison to the girl standing there, perfectly straight, scrutinizing Capricorn's Black Jackets, with her chin jutting out defiantly. — Cornelia Funke

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.. — Cornelia Funke

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue — Cornelia Funke

the sly smile hides the broken heart — Cornelia Funke

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ... duct tape. — Cornelia Funke

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