"How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a r..."
- Cornelia Funke
"If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in."
".......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful."
"You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them..."
"Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones."
"Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all."
"Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers."
"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."
"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 tal..."
"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 h..."