Top 300 Cornelia Funke Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.”

— Cornelia Funke

152. “Everyone is small at night.”

— Cornelia Funke

153. “Secrets. They add to the darkness of the world but they also make you want to find out more...”

— Cornelia Funke

154. “And the pain was back again, and time, and longing too.”

— Cornelia Funke

155. “The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. – Balbulus.”

— Cornelia Funke

156. “He still looked so sad. Not a sign of the laughter that once used to be as much a part of his face as his black eyes. The smile he gave her now was only a sad shadow of it.”

— Cornelia Funke

157. “Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.”

— Cornelia Funke

158. “Sometimes Fox thought all the men she knew had the dreams and wishes of nine-year-old boys – at least all the men she liked.”

— Cornelia Funke

159. “Didn’t books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?”

— Cornelia Funke

160. “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 break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.”

— Cornelia Funke

161. “I know why you’re here... This world doesn’t frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You’ve left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him.”

— Cornelia Funke

162. “Fear was not red, fear is pale as a dead man’s face.”

— Cornelia Funke

163. “It was like a promise that wishes could come true, that desire might lead to more than yearning.”

— Cornelia Funke

164. “The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts.”

— Cornelia Funke

165. “For the hundredth time, she closed her eyes so she could see another room in her mind’s eye, one with a curtain full of stars, and a mattress surrounded by books that whispered their stories to her at night. – Pg. 235.”

— Cornelia Funke

166. “I always thought it hadn’t influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.”

— Cornelia Funke

167. “Nobody loves only once.”

— Cornelia Funke

168. “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.” Of.”

— Cornelia Funke

169. “You humans love mirrors. You have to constantly make sure you still have the same face. Nothing scares you more than if someone changes it.”

— Cornelia Funke

170. “Librarians. He’d never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.”

— Cornelia Funke

171. “There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.”

— Cornelia Funke

172. “Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.”

— Cornelia Funke

173. “A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there’s a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step.”

— Cornelia Funke

174. “My son always says I like very weird music.”

— Cornelia Funke

175. “Life is so simple when you’re young, though of course that’s not what it feels like to the young.”

— Cornelia Funke

176. “I will try to write books until I drop dead.”

— Cornelia Funke

177. “You can’t expect the wolf to turn vegetarian because of one Pup.”

— Cornelia Funke

178. “Why did such truths only reveal themselves after they’d become lies?”

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179. “Why were love and death such close neighbors?”

— Cornelia Funke

180. “Perhaps the story now goes on beyond the book.”

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181. “Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.”

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182. “It was hard to let go of love. Once woven, its ribbon was hard to tear, and this one she’d woven quite firmly herself.”

— Cornelia Funke

183. “What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?”

— Cornelia Funke

184. “The wheels of the pocket watch began to move in their perfect rhythm, confirming once again that there was no end to well-kept order. Immortality was clean and precise. For sure it didn’t need a heart. A heartbeat became irregular so easily and at the end it stopped, however carefully one treated it.”

— Cornelia Funke

185. “My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.”

— Cornelia Funke

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186. “And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.”

— Cornelia Funke

187. “They’re my children, my inky children, and I look after them well.”

— Cornelia Funke

188. “Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. “Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”

— Cornelia Funke

189. “Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early bird But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”

— Cornelia Funke

190. “The Bluebeard’s terrible parting gift had been to make desire rhyme with death and fear.”

— Cornelia Funke

191. “The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli’s shoulders. “A brave heart and a courteous tongue,” said he. “They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.”

— Cornelia Funke

192. “Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.”

— Cornelia Funke

193. “Her beauty took one’s breath away, like a sudden pain.”

— Cornelia Funke

194. “It must be a dangerous world.” Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Mo had once given her a book about fairies. Dustfinger shrugged. “Yes, it’s dangerous, so what? This world’s dangerous, too, isn’t it?”

— Cornelia Funke

195. “I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. – Elinor.”

— Cornelia Funke

196. “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.”

— Cornelia Funke

197. “Her heart pounded as he kissed her. Or was it his heart? She hadn’t been able to tell the difference ever since he’d freed her from that trap.”

— Cornelia Funke

198. “And all was well.”

— Cornelia Funke

199. “For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn’t want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune.”

— Cornelia Funke

200. “She’d been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she’d only traveled through halfway.”

— Cornelia Funke