Inkdeath By Cornelia Quotes & Sayings

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid. — Cornelia Funke

I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ... — Catherynne M Valente

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. — Eric Hoffer

Resa longed for the kitchen, always full of the humming of the oversize fridge, for mo's workshop in the garden, and the armchair in the library where you could sit and visit strange worlds without getting lost in them — Cornelia Funke

We're all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken. — Angie Harmon

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea ... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. — Ad Reinhardt

In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented. — Maya Angelou

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly. — Cornelia Funke

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

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

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'
spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath — Cornelia Funke

People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

My life was still someone else's idea. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm. — Martin Amis

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past ... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been? — Cornelia Funke

Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern. — Craig Kilborn

From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again. — Cornelia Funke

In truth I care little about any party's politics-the man behind it is the important thing. — Mark Twain

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly." — Daniel Handler

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating. — Cornelia Funke

Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again.
Peace. Was that the word? — Cornelia Funke

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. — Edward Sapir

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder... — Cornelia Funke

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved. — Oliviero Toscani

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you. — Jamie Redknapp