Quotes by Cornelia Funke

About Cornelia Funke:

Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of children's fiction. She was born on December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in 2004–2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California.
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Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.

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It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.

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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?

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If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

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

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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

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He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t...

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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

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.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful.

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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected...

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So what? All writers are lunatics!

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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.

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For him that stealeth,or borroweth and returneth not,this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let...

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

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As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

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He bent over Farid and wiped some soot from his cold forehead. "Roxanne knows it," he said. "She'll tell it to you. Just go to her and... and tell her I've had to go away. Tell her I'm going to find out if the story is true." He spoke with a strange ...

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She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

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Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

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Perhaps she was more like him than he'd thought: her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer's ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world.

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Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.

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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.

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Author Bio

  • NameCornelia Funke
  • Descriptionauthor
  • BornDecember 10, 1958
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionWriter; Children's Writer
  • WorksInkheart Trilogy
  • AwardsCross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany; Zilveren Griffel