Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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
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
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…
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. - Cornelia Funke
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. - Cornelia Funke
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. - Cornelia Funke
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. - Cornelia Funke
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating. - Cornelia Funke
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. - Cornelia Funke
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. - Cornelia Funke
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
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