Top 300 Cornelia Funke Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Their dust was in high demand, as it gave sweet dreams, but Tabetha couldn’t afford to get lost in them. Those dreams were only lies anyway, and waking up from them only made facing reality harder.”

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252. “I don’t like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.”

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253. “Death has white hounds.”

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254. “Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.”

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255. “No, it wasn’t quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success – and for revenge.”

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256. “He sought her lips as if he needed to breathe through her, as if only she could keep him from choking on his rage.”

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257. “It had always been a myth that it was those who loved you who could see through you. It was those you feared who could see through you most clearly.”

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258. “Yesterday. Was there a more merciless word?”

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259. “The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.”

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260. “Mortimer!” Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. “Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you don’t know what’s going on in this world of yours? He’s not doing any reading now. The bookbinder prefers to play the outlaw these days – the role you created especially for him.”

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261. “They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends – daring and knowledgable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored while Mo cut leather and fabric to the right size and re-stitched old pages that over countless years had grown fragile from the many fingers leafing through them.”

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262. “If you’re going to start tonight there’s no time to waste. Certainly not enough time to finish your quarrel with this dim-witted mushroom-muncher.”

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263. “Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn’t kiss her like Meggie, they couldn’t hug her like Resa, they couldn’t laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.”

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264. “She was gone. And his heart was beating too loud and too fast. Into nothingness.”

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265. “He looked so glorious. Just like the knights I had dreamed about when I was six years old, whacking at brambles iin our garden, imagining I was fighting dragons and giants with a sword that made me invincible and wearing armor that protected me from all the things that frightened me – older kids, dogs, a storm in the knight, or my little sister’s questions about when our father would be coming back.”

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266. “I’m only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating them, and prevent them from losing their pages over the years like a man loses his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words – I can’t do that. That’s a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, ‘An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician – but a magician, the enchanter, is in the ascendant.”

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267. “And this time he would have said it, right? I love you. So much. Too much. But that was forbidden. For all time. The Elf would take his heart in payment.”

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268. “There it was, that familiar fear, love’s terrible price.”

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269. “Never develop a passion you can’t afford. It’ll eat your heart away like a bookworm.”

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270. “What terrible human presumption it is to catch other living creatures and hold them captive!”

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271. “Well what does it matter,′ he muttered when he was out in the corridor. ‘Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?”

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272. “The unicorns lifted their heads. Of course they weren’t white. Why were things in this world always white-washed? Their hides were brown and grey, mottled black, and pale yellow like the autumn sun drifting through the damp fog above.”

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273. “But his heart, strangely enough, told him something else.”

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274. “Only to be expected!′ Elinor’s voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him.”

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275. “Don’t let it worry you, not being able to speak,‘Dustfinger had often told her. ‘People tend not to listen anyway, right?”

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276. “Everyone living around this lake thinks I’m crazy, and if we go back to the police with this story, then the news that Elinor Loredan has finally flipped will be all over the place. Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy.”

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277. “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.”

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278. “Wood always remembers it was once a living tree, alive and breathing in both kingdoms, the one above and the one below.”

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279. “After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.”

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280. “He pressed his fist to where his heart had once beaten, and I did the same. I’m sure I looked like a total idiot, but I think we all do when we’re really happy. Except for Longspee. He just looked fabulous being happy.”

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281. “Love is always a prison.”

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282. “To never let the other forget who they are – love is also about that.”

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283. “An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher or a magician – but the magician, the enchanter is in the ascendant.”

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284. “If ye see the laird, tell him what ye hear; tell him this makes the twelve hunner and nineteen time that Jennet Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and stable, man, guest and master, wife, miss, or bairn – black, black be their fall.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped.”

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285. “Nonsense!” she shouted. “Where are you going to go? We all belong together. Your problems are our problems.”

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286. “Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.”

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287. “It sounded as if his mother were breaking into small pieces, such tiny pieces that no one would ever be able to put her together again. But he wanted to keep her!”

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288. “He had lived in Venice for more than fifteen years and he still didn’t know all the city’s nooks and crannies – but then again no one did.”

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289. “I don’t know much about killing, but for you I’d learn!”

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290. “The Hartliebs had no time for the snow. Outside their window, San Giorgio Maggiore seemed to be floating on the lagoon as if it had just surfaced there. The view was so beautiful that Victor felt his heart ache. Esther and her husband, however, stood side by side with their backs to the window.”

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291. “He closed the window, and the scents of the past again flooded the room, like a bunch of wilted flowers.”

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292. “Have you forgotten?” she replied. “In our world, the Witches work in hospitals.”

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293. “He simply didn’t see the world as it really was, that was the explanation – neither the world nor the people he felt so sorry for. Because if you did see them for what they were, what on earth would make you want to fight and even die for them?”

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294. “What nonsense! I just like to believe in fairy tales.”

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295. “Love is a deadly affair.”

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296. “Victor,” he asked, “what do adults do all day?” “Work,” Victor answered, “eat, shop, pay bills, use the phone, read newspapers, drink coffee, sleep.”

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297. “They have become so lost in their own darkness that they see nothing but darkness in everything.”

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298. “The wrong boy. But what did the heart care about that?”

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299. “Jealousy still gave him a pang. The heart was a stupid thing.”

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300. “Well, one thing’s for sure, they’re very strange names, and that’s putting it mildly.”

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