Claudia Berdej > Claudia's Quotes

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
― Walt Disney

“you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.
-Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.”
― Grantland Rice

“There are 2 ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured.
Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’
Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’
Meggie had no answer for that.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“For He knows how we are formed;
He is mindful that we are dust.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“When you can’t be with the one you love, will you stay with the one who loves you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family

“If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
― Johnny Depp

“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
― Johnny Depp

“Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond...”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
― Coco Chanel

“Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again.

Peace. Was that the word?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“And he will have a great aunt called Elinor who tells him there's a world not like this one. A world with neither fairies nor glass men, but with animals who carry their young in a pouch in front of their bellies, and birds with wings that beat so fast it sounds like the humming of a bumblebee, with carriages that drive along without any horses and pictures that move on their own accord... She will tell him that even the most powerful men don't carry swords in the other world, but there are much, much more terrible weapons there...She will even claim that the people there have built coaches that can fly...So the boy will think that perhaps he'll have to go alone one day, if he wants to see that world...Because it must be exciting in that other world, much more exciting than in his own...”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath