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662af0b	The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.		Cornelia Funke
087ddfb	Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.	young-adult family fantasy portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy brothers guilt	Cornelia Funke
ca6ffed	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 his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words-- I can't do that. That's a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician-- ..	magic writing	Cornelia Funke
27e20a4	Perhaps the story now goes on beyond the book.		Cornelia Funke
13469e8	Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.	life-truths	Cornelia Funke
e135781	You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it		Cornelia Funke
889a78f	Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. But		Cornelia Funke
a538172	Vielleicht gehoren wir alle nicht nur in eine Geschichte.		Cornelia Funke
8d257a1	In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...	heroes family fairytales punishment siblings hero ya	Cornelia Funke
1bb76be	The best lies stay close to the truth.	lies young-adult truth fairytales young-adult-fantasy truth-and-lies liar	Cornelia Funke
dc7d00d	Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.	young-adult fantasy strong-women treasure-hunting portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy leaders royalty queen	Cornelia Funke
bd09341	You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.	fairy-tales war young-adult fantasy war-and-peace portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy peace	Cornelia Funke
66d9532	Blagodaria professii ottsa Meggi ne raz znakomilas' s liud'mi, kotorye liubili knigi, prodavali ikh, sobirali, pechatali ili, podobno eio ottsu, uberegali ikh ot tlena, no nikogda eshchio ona ne vstrechala cheloveka, kotoryi napisal slova i predlozheniia, zapolniavshie stranitsy. Ona ne pomnila avtorov dazhe nekotorykh svoikh liubimykh knig i uzh tem bolee poniatiia ne imela, kak oni vygliadeli. Ona vsegda videla tol'ko personazhei, vykhodi..		Cornelia Funke
e781ceb	paper-		Cornelia Funke
4d2eaf5	Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.	fantasy-young-adult young-adult fantasy-world portal-fantasy stone	Cornelia Funke
eef25af	Hentzau saw the Jade Goyl just as clearly as the Fairy had in her dreams. The pale green stone ran through his human skin like a promise.	fantasy fantasy-worlds fairytales portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy fairy	Cornelia Funke
d93237f	Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?	young-adult fear weakness-quotes portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy skin	Cornelia Funke
07bacfa	The Dark Fairy touched her chest. No heart, like her sisters. So where did the love come from?	fairy-tales young-adult fantasy love fairytales heartless-love portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy	Cornelia Funke
e57c08e	It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A" --		Cornelia Funke
9414104	A veces, cuando uno no sabe que hacer, un buen enfado ayuda.		Cornelia Funke
7d8f32e	Manchmal hilft es, wutend zu werden, wenn man vor Traurigkeit nicht ein noch as weiss.		Cornelia Funke
e589247	It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I"		Cornelia Funke
841b980	Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry that its promise had not been kept. But Inkheart was not a book of that		Cornelia Funke
5c06042	I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--		Cornelia Funke
584c73e	I want to see thirst In the syllables, Touch fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream. Pablo Neruda, "Word," Five Decades T"		Cornelia Funke
2236484	V real'noi zhizni vsio tochno tak zhe. Samye strashnye ubiitsy vykhodiat sukhimi iz vody i zhivut sebe pripevaiuchi do glubokoi starosti, togda kak dobrye i khoroshie, poroi samye luchshie, pogibaiut. Otchego zhe v knigakh dolzhno byt' inache?		Cornelia Funke
199fd0b	Istorii nikogda ne konchaiutsia, Meggi, - skazal on ei odnazhdy. - Khotia knizhki liubiat delat' vid, budto eto ne tak. Istorii prodolzhaiutsia, oni ne zakanchivaiutsia na poslednei stranitse, kak i nachinaiutsia ne na pervoi"."		Cornelia Funke
7e8cef0	Pravda stranno, chto, esli knizhku prochitat' neskol'ko raz, ona stanovitsia namnogo tolshche? - skazal Mo, kogda oni v poslednii den' rozhdeniia Meggi vmeste rassmatrivali eti eio starinnye sokrovishcha v sunduke. - Kak budto pri kazhdom chtenii chto-to ostaiotsia mezhdu stranits. Chuvstva, mysli, zvuki, zapakhi... I kogda ty mnogo let spustia snova listaesh' knigu, to nakhodish' tam sebia samogo - nemnogo mladshe, nemnogo ne takogo, kak t..		Cornelia Funke
306df23	He hablado ex profeso con el viento -anuncio-, pues hay una cosa que debes saber: cuando el viento se obstina en jugar con el fuego, ni yo mismo puedo domenarlo. Pero me ha dado su palabra de honor de que esta noche se mantendra en calma y no nos estropeara la diversion.	libros quotes	Cornelia Funke
6b0a7aa	C'era una volta... le fiabe non cominciano cosi per niente, Will. Ma il "poi vissero per sempre felici e contenti" ce lo si deve guadagnare."		Cornelia Funke
f0fdcbe	Quando lui la bacio di nuovo, il cuore di Volpe si mise a battere forte. O era quello di Jacob? Dal giorno in cui l'aveva liberata dalla trappola, non li distingueva piu veramente.		Cornelia Funke
4361668	Non far dimenticare all'altro chi era. Dell'amore faceva parte anche questo.		Cornelia Funke
bad4fd3	E' questo il bello dei libri, che li puoi chiudere quando ti fa comodo.		Cornelia Funke
3382343	Non c'e niente che sappia consolare meglio di qualche pagina ben scritta quando sei lontano da casa, vero?		Cornelia Funke
b4e2fb3	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. Dustfinger		Cornelia Funke
252c577	sandwiches		Cornelia Funke
3c4c3a9	Maybe people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.		Cornelia Funke
be6f982	A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las paginas impresas.		Cornelia Funke
83d5a38	Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero esta encerrado en ellos.		Cornelia Funke
0def835	No te parece raro el grosor de un libro cuando lo lees varias veces? -le habia preguntado Mo en su ultimo cumpleanos, cuando contemplaban cada uno de sus viejos libros-. Parece como si cada vez algo quedara adherido entre las paginas. Sentimientos, pensamientos, sonidos, olores... Y cuando al cabo de los anos vuelves a hojear el libro, te descubres a ti misma dentro, un poco mas joven y diferente, como si el libro te hubiera conservado igua..		Cornelia Funke
2a02257	Matar] es facil? <		Cornelia Funke
916a486	Nekotorymi knigami nado naslazhdat'sia, drugie - proglatyvat'; i lish' nemnogie nuzhno zhevat', a zatem khorosho perevarivat'.		Cornelia Funke
6461948	Esli ty beriosh' s soboi knigu, - skazal Mo, kogda polozhil v eio sunduk pervuiu knizhku, - proiskhodit strannaia veshch': kniga nachinaet sobirat' tvoi vospominaniia. Stoit lish' otkryt' eio potom, i ty srazu perenosish'sia tuda, gde chital eti stranitsy. Probezhal glazami pervye slova - i pered toboi ozhivaiut znakomye kartiny, ty chuvstvuesh' zapakhi, vkus morozhenogo, kotoroe el vo vremia chteniia... Pover', knigi volshebnye, ved' nicht..		Cornelia Funke
381d493	Potomu chto strakh ubivaet, - kak-to raz skazal ei Mo, - i razum, i serdtse, i fantaziiu"."		Cornelia Funke

662af0b

The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.

Cornelia Funke

087ddfb

Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.

young-adult family fantasy portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy brothers guilt

Cornelia Funke

ca6ffed

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 his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words-- I can't do that. That's a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician-- ..

magic writing

Cornelia Funke

27e20a4

Perhaps the story now goes on beyond the book.

Cornelia Funke

13469e8

Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.

life-truths

Cornelia Funke

e135781

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it

Cornelia Funke

889a78f

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. But

Cornelia Funke

a538172

Vielleicht gehoren wir alle nicht nur in eine Geschichte.

Cornelia Funke

8d257a1

In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...

heroes family fairytales punishment siblings hero ya

Cornelia Funke

1bb76be

The best lies stay close to the truth.

lies young-adult truth fairytales young-adult-fantasy truth-and-lies liar

Cornelia Funke

dc7d00d

Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.

young-adult fantasy strong-women treasure-hunting portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy leaders royalty queen

Cornelia Funke

bd09341

You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.

fairy-tales war young-adult fantasy war-and-peace portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy peace

Cornelia Funke

66d9532

Blagodaria professii ottsa Meggi ne raz znakomilas' s liud'mi, kotorye liubili knigi, prodavali ikh, sobirali, pechatali ili, podobno eio ottsu, uberegali ikh ot tlena, no nikogda eshchio ona ne vstrechala cheloveka, kotoryi napisal slova i predlozheniia, zapolniavshie stranitsy. Ona ne pomnila avtorov dazhe nekotorykh svoikh liubimykh knig i uzh tem bolee poniatiia ne imela, kak oni vygliadeli. Ona vsegda videla tol'ko personazhei, vykhodi..

Cornelia Funke

e781ceb

paper-

Cornelia Funke

4d2eaf5

Even the Doughskins had to admit it: in this world, only stone could claim to last.

fantasy-young-adult young-adult fantasy-world portal-fantasy stone

Cornelia Funke

eef25af

Hentzau saw the Jade Goyl just as clearly as the Fairy had in her dreams. The pale green stone ran through his human skin like a promise.

fantasy fantasy-worlds fairytales portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy fairy

Cornelia Funke

d93237f

Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?

young-adult fear weakness-quotes portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy skin

Cornelia Funke

07bacfa

The Dark Fairy touched her chest. No heart, like her sisters. So where did the love come from?

fairy-tales young-adult fantasy love fairytales heartless-love portal-fantasy young-adult-fantasy

Cornelia Funke

e57c08e

It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A" --

Cornelia Funke

9414104

A veces, cuando uno no sabe que hacer, un buen enfado ayuda.

Cornelia Funke

7d8f32e

Manchmal hilft es, wutend zu werden, wenn man vor Traurigkeit nicht ein noch as weiss.

Cornelia Funke

e589247

It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I"

Cornelia Funke

841b980

Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry that its promise had not been kept. But Inkheart was not a book of that

Cornelia Funke

5c06042

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

Cornelia Funke

584c73e

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Touch fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream. Pablo Neruda, "Word," Five Decades T"

Cornelia Funke

2236484

V real'noi zhizni vsio tochno tak zhe. Samye strashnye ubiitsy vykhodiat sukhimi iz vody i zhivut sebe pripevaiuchi do glubokoi starosti, togda kak dobrye i khoroshie, poroi samye luchshie, pogibaiut. Otchego zhe v knigakh dolzhno byt' inache?

Cornelia Funke

199fd0b

Istorii nikogda ne konchaiutsia, Meggi, - skazal on ei odnazhdy. - Khotia knizhki liubiat delat' vid, budto eto ne tak. Istorii prodolzhaiutsia, oni ne zakanchivaiutsia na poslednei stranitse, kak i nachinaiutsia ne na pervoi"."

Cornelia Funke

7e8cef0

Pravda stranno, chto, esli knizhku prochitat' neskol'ko raz, ona stanovitsia namnogo tolshche? - skazal Mo, kogda oni v poslednii den' rozhdeniia Meggi vmeste rassmatrivali eti eio starinnye sokrovishcha v sunduke. - Kak budto pri kazhdom chtenii chto-to ostaiotsia mezhdu stranits. Chuvstva, mysli, zvuki, zapakhi... I kogda ty mnogo let spustia snova listaesh' knigu, to nakhodish' tam sebia samogo - nemnogo mladshe, nemnogo ne takogo, kak t..

Cornelia Funke

306df23

He hablado ex profeso con el viento -anuncio-, pues hay una cosa que debes saber: cuando el viento se obstina en jugar con el fuego, ni yo mismo puedo domenarlo. Pero me ha dado su palabra de honor de que esta noche se mantendra en calma y no nos estropeara la diversion.

libros quotes

Cornelia Funke

6b0a7aa

C'era una volta... le fiabe non cominciano cosi per niente, Will. Ma il "poi vissero per sempre felici e contenti" ce lo si deve guadagnare."

Cornelia Funke

f0fdcbe

Quando lui la bacio di nuovo, il cuore di Volpe si mise a battere forte. O era quello di Jacob? Dal giorno in cui l'aveva liberata dalla trappola, non li distingueva piu veramente.

Cornelia Funke

4361668

Non far dimenticare all'altro chi era. Dell'amore faceva parte anche questo.

Cornelia Funke

bad4fd3

E' questo il bello dei libri, che li puoi chiudere quando ti fa comodo.

Cornelia Funke

3382343

Non c'e niente che sappia consolare meglio di qualche pagina ben scritta quando sei lontano da casa, vero?

Cornelia Funke

b4e2fb3

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. Dustfinger

Cornelia Funke

252c577

sandwiches

Cornelia Funke

3c4c3a9

Maybe people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

Cornelia Funke

be6f982

A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las paginas impresas.

Cornelia Funke

83d5a38

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero esta encerrado en ellos.

Cornelia Funke

0def835

No te parece raro el grosor de un libro cuando lo lees varias veces? -le habia preguntado Mo en su ultimo cumpleanos, cuando contemplaban cada uno de sus viejos libros-. Parece como si cada vez algo quedara adherido entre las paginas. Sentimientos, pensamientos, sonidos, olores... Y cuando al cabo de los anos vuelves a hojear el libro, te descubres a ti misma dentro, un poco mas joven y diferente, como si el libro te hubiera conservado igua..

Cornelia Funke

2a02257

Matar] es facil? <

Cornelia Funke

916a486

Nekotorymi knigami nado naslazhdat'sia, drugie - proglatyvat'; i lish' nemnogie nuzhno zhevat', a zatem khorosho perevarivat'.

Cornelia Funke

6461948

Esli ty beriosh' s soboi knigu, - skazal Mo, kogda polozhil v eio sunduk pervuiu knizhku, - proiskhodit strannaia veshch': kniga nachinaet sobirat' tvoi vospominaniia. Stoit lish' otkryt' eio potom, i ty srazu perenosish'sia tuda, gde chital eti stranitsy. Probezhal glazami pervye slova - i pered toboi ozhivaiut znakomye kartiny, ty chuvstvuesh' zapakhi, vkus morozhenogo, kotoroe el vo vremia chteniia... Pover', knigi volshebnye, ved' nicht..

Cornelia Funke

381d493

Potomu chto strakh ubivaet, - kak-to raz skazal ei Mo, - i razum, i serdtse, i fantaziiu"."

Cornelia Funke