Quotes from Cornelia Funke

Perhaps it's true that death is only the beginning of a new story, but no one has ever read the book in which it's written.

You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. Antonio Muñoz Molinas, "The Power of the

What about you?" inquired Lobosch. "You're not afraid, are you, Krabat?" "More than you guess," said Krabat. "And not for myself alone." Otfried Preussler, The Satanic Mill

Creo que ella se alimenta de letras. Toda su casa está abarrotada de libros. Ella los prefiere claramente a la compañía de las personas

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 …

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built

Men are always on the side of power. Even the Dark Fairy had to learn that. They will always betray us for power, so why shouldn't we do the same? If only it didn't make our hearts so cold.

Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.

Voleva tornare nel suo sogno. Forse era ancora lì, da qualche parte dietro le palpebre abbassate. Forse alle ciglia era rimasta attaccata un po' di felicità, come la polvere d'oro delle fatine della buonanotte.

Don't get caught in your own thoughts, Fox. They would make her blind and deaf.

I libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

Apenas sentía el cuerpo en el agua helada, y el humo hacía de la respiración una tortura, pero tenía que encontrarla. -Jacob- unos brazos mojados le rodearon el cuello; una fría mejilla se unió a la suya. Sus cabellos pelirrojos parecían casi negros, empapados y pegados a la cara, y Jacob la abrazó hasta sentir el latido de su corazón a través de las ropas mojadas. No se atrevía a soltarla, por miedo a que las olas se la llevaran de nuevo.

Let us use our magic and enchantments to conjure up a woman out of flowers." … Math and Gwydyon took the flowers of oak and broom and meadowsweet and from these conjured up the loveliest and most beautiful girl anyone had seen; they baptized her with the form of baptism that was used then, and named her Blodeuedd. "Math Son of Mathonwy," from The Mabinogion, translated by Jeffrey Gantz

John fand es faszinierend, dass sein ältester Sohn es sich sur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit dieser Welt zu suchen, während sein Vater ihr die Zukunft brauchte.

Glaub es oder glaub es nicht!«, sagte sie. »In einem der letzten Bücher, die ich gekauft habe, einer wunderschönen Erstausgabe aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert, habe ich doch tatsächlich eine eingetrocknete Salamischeibe als Lesezeichen gefunden.

A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las páginas impresas.

Spindeln, Rosendornen ...' sagte das Mädchen abfällig. 'Die Brosche ist so viel besser.

Es mejor tener mil enemigos fuera de casa que uno dentro. Proverbio árabe

Vielleicht hat die Sehnsucht nach dieser Welt auch sehr viel mit seiner Mutter zu tun.

Selbst meine Gro?mutter muss das Goldene Garn respektieren. Aber sie wollte sein Kleid so sehr.

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos.

But the marten laughed. And once again it sounded like an old woman's laughter. All stories end with me, Bluejay, Death said. You will find me everywhere.

Pass auf dein Herz auf, Fuchsschwester,' rief Miranda ihr zu. 'Ich habe keins und er hat es mir trotzdem gebrochen.

Ihr Herz schlug so laut, als er sie wieder küsste. Oder war es sein Herz? Seit dem Tag, an dem er sie aus der Falle befreit hatte, konnte sie das nicht mehr wirklich unterscheiden.