487 Quotes by Cornelia Funke

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

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

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

He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. 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.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

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

Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth.

It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.

That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!