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…

- Cornelia Funke

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the se…

- Cornelia Funke

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

- Cornelia Funke

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

- Cornelia Funke

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

- Cornelia Funke

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

- Cornelia Funke

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

- Cornelia Funke

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

- Cornelia Funke

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

- Cornelia Funke