"When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer."
- Cornelia Funke
"All writers are insane!"
"Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil."
"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..."
"What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and..."
"Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page"
"What are stories for if we don't learn from them?"
"I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer."
"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 pl..."
"Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!""..."