Quote

Reality is a fragile thing.

Cornelia Funke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
Author
Illustrator
Screenwriter
Writer
Fragile
Reality
Thing

More quotes by Cornelia Funke

Image
Everyone is small at night.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
Image
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.
Cornelia Funke
Image
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
Cornelia Funke
Image
Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
Cornelia Funke
Image
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
Cornelia Funke
Image
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia Funke
Image
Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
Cornelia Funke
Image
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
Cornelia Funke
Image
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Believe, believe, believe
Cornelia Funke
Image
Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
Cornelia Funke
Image
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
Cornelia Funke
Image
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
Cornelia Funke