Mabel

“I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan