Cornelia Funke Quotes About Inkheart
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
→ -
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.
→ -
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
→ -
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
→ -
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
→ -
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.
→ -
We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
→ -
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
→ -
Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
→ -
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 keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
→ -
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.
→ -
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?
→ -
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
→ -
Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
→ -
The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
→ -
What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
→ -
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
→ -
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
→ -
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
→ -
Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
→ -
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
→ -
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
→
Related Authors
-
Rick Riordan Author -
Eoin Colfer Author -
John Flanagan Author -
Erich Kastner Author -
Philip Pullman Film writer -
J. K. Rowling Novelist -
Eva Ibbotson Novelist -
Stephenie Meyer Writer -
Margaret Haddix Writer -
Anthony Horowitz Novelist -
Astrid Lindgren Writer -
Lionel Wigram Film producer -
Angie Sage Author -
Christopher Paolini Author -
Suzanne Collins Writer -
Jostein Gaarder Author -
Cassandra Clare Author -
Kerstin Gier Author -
Brendan Fraser Film actor -
Garth Nix Writer