Cornelia Funke

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#inspirational

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#world

So what? All writers are lunatics! ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#writing #humor

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#friends #words

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#heart #imagination #mind #imagination

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#friendship

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#idea

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

#inkdeath #men #women #death

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#sea #sea