Finnomenon

“Many hundreds of years ago, he had once told Meggie, people made the bindings for particularly valuable books from the skin of unborn calves, charta virginea non nata, a pretty name for a terrible thing. “And those books,” Mo had told her, “were full of the most wonderful words about love and kindness and mercy.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies”
― Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

“Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath