Cornelia Funke Quotes About Reading

• The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

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• 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.

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  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.117, Chicken House

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• A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

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• If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

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• 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... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

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  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

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  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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