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Category: Cornelia Funke

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

believe, bright, devil, night

All writers are insane!

humor, insanity, writers

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

books, reading, reading-books

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for

curse, library, malediction

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

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.

description, morning, simile, sky, sun

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past… Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn’t mind what their names had once been?

cornelia-funke, dead, grave-stones, inkdeath, inkworld, names

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn’t know much about love.

betrayal, love, revenge

Secrets… nothing eats away at love faster.

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.

dawn, description, night, rain

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

betrayal, comedy, curses