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Cornelia Funke, born on December 10, 1958, is a renowned German children's literature author. Her works are highly praised for their rich imagination, unique narrative style, and profound humanistic concerns. Funke's writing covers a variety of themes including fantasy, adventure, and growth, and has won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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“When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.”

Teach Strange Curiosity Forgotten Corners Driven Hiding Dustfinger

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

Ifs Book Reading Pages Ears Printed Pillow Lure

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.”

Night Felt Dark Animal Rooms Silence Danger Promise Skins Clock Apartment Woven Cloaks Jacob

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

People Able Speak Worry Dustfinger

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

Names Dread Frightening Inkheart

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Source: Inkheart

“What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?”

Knows Ends Matter Stories Do You Know Princess Inkheart Dustfinger

Author:Cornelia Funke

“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”

Stills Soul Night Water White Sky Convince Floating Lilies Night Sky Alone In Love

Book:Reckless

Source: Reckless

“The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.”

World Firsts Stills Games Enemy Blood Worst Mets Late Flesh Poison Too Late Tents

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“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”

Humans Flower Dresses Core Mortals Fairy Layers Petals Rotting

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“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?”

People World Made Real Ten Pages Real Life Unhappy Real World Slap Escapism Monotony Inkdeath

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“We're all liars when it serves our purpose.”

Purpose Liars Inkheart

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.”

Looks Faces Courses Likes Not Pretty Inkheart

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.”

People World Way Real Sometimes Dies Real Life Good People Murderer Notorious Scots

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Source: Inkheart

“It's a cruel world, don't you think?”

Thinking World Cruel World

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Source: Inkspell

“What a plague love is!”

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“Reality is a fragile thing.”

Reality Fragile Fragile Things

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“Nobody loves only once.”

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“She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?”

Heart Hands Felt Chests

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“Where did the love come from? What was it made of?”

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“Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.”

Men Long Enough Born Tomorrow Yesterday

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“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”

Book:Dragon Rider

Source: Dragon Rider

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”

People Knows Humans Book Human Beings Burning Novelists Banned Books

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?”

Years Heart Use Remember Lost Memories Sweet Bitter Fades Ache Pushed Away

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”

Book Memories Pages Printed Inkheart

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Source: Inkheart

“Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.”

Ifs World Want I Can Sometimes Helping Seems Alive Pages Lonely Block Friendly Bad Things Writer's Block

Author:Cornelia Funke

“All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.”

Humans Wells Looks Children Book Hands Protect Safe Pages Fingers Hungry Dust My Children Sunlight

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.”

World Voice Secret Wonderful Magic Loneliness Building Pages Block Glorious Companion Speakers Keepers Building Blocks Comforter Wonderful World

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“Words are immortal - Elinor”

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“Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?”

Thinking Knows Children Stories Secret Imagine Bears Easier Horror Horror Stories

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!”

Important Sweaters

Author:Cornelia Funke

“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.”

World Book Whole Stories Goes On Whole World Developing Inkheart

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away”

Book Hours Please Take Me Far Away

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.”

Different Real Stories Beautiful Real Life Sad Story

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.”

World Made Sometimes Darkness Constant Assuming Terror Disaster Curse Darkness Within Dustfinger

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?”

Heart Stills Reason Song Mistake Flower Masters Weak Following Foolishness Bent Whim Transient Fatal Mistakes

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.”

Said Stories Lasts Born Dear Dustfinger

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?”

Knows Wells Children Different Shoes Embarrassed Esther

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?”

Knows Way Looks Book Break Bears Lays Monsters Necks Flats Spine

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.”

Light Night Easy Forget Wall Beast Protected Prey

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”

Doe Asks Butterfly Caterpillars

Author:Cornelia Funke

“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.”

Thinking Different Stories Wanted Reading Fun Fear Half Happened Middle Hero Taste Expected Horrible

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Looks Book Real Whole House Company Likes Print Bookworms

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.”

Should Firsts Book Shows Dark Red Blue Theatre Attractive Colour Curtains Binding Dark Blue

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.”

Knows World Book Stories Seems Fall Fun This World Findings Finding Yourself

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“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?”

Littles Stills Sometimes Dream Wanted Behinds Return Gold Tales Dust Fairy Fairy Tale Tokens Lashes Eyelids Inkheart Gold Dust

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!”

Running Hair Theater Running Away Blonde Venice Movie Theater Old Movie

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“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

Children Remember Felt Adults Butterfly Caterpillars

Book:The Thief Lord

Source: The Thief Lord

“He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.”

Want Different Dream Wish Grants

Book:The Thief Lord

Source: The Thief Lord

“But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.”

Stories Villain Salt Soup

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“What are stories for if we don't learn from them?”

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Source: Inkspell

About the Author

Born: December 10, 1958
Known for: Author
Quotes: 276

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