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

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

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  1. It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place – Cornelia Funke
  2. You’re the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them… – Cornelia Funke
  3. I will try to write books until I drop dead. – Cornelia Funke
  4. Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters – DKadie
  5. I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds–this was a comfort to me. – Alice Munro
  6. It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s web and enchantingly beautiful.. – Cornelia Funke
  7. Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. – Cornelia Funke
  8. -You forgot something important!-What?-It’s under my sweater!-WHAT?!-Me! – Cornelia Funke
  9. I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings– – Cornelia Funke
  10. If you keep pretending you’re in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you’re in. – Cornelia Funke
  11. …….only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful. – Cornelia Funke
  12. Children, they’re the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all. – Cornelia Funke
  13. Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers. – Cornelia Funke
  14. The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It’s easy to forget that when you’re indoors, protected by light and solid walls. – Cornelia Funke
  15. All writers are insane! – Cornelia Funke
  16. Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil. – Cornelia Funke
  17. That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch! – Cornelia Funke
  18. Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. – Cornelia Funke
  19. Secrets… nothing eats away at love faster. – Cornelia Funke
  20. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. – Jay Kristoff
  21. He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories. – Alan Hollinghurst
  22. She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. – Jane Hamilton
  23. No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. – Julia Quinn
  24. Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive. – Jen Campbell
  25. There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed. – Christian Rudder
  26. I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
  27. Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short. – Sofija
  28. It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart. – JEB Spredemann
  29. If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. – Benjamin Franklin
  30. Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade. – Raine Cooper
  31. Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most. – Elizabeth May
  32. Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact. – MarieSabine Roger
  33. It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
  34. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  35. Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future… – Neil Gaiman
  36. Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else’ decision to cling to well-worn path. – Brandan Roberston
  37. Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else’ decision to cling to a well-worn path. – Brandan Robertson
  38. As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become. – Teresa R Funke
  39. If I learned anything in this life, I’ve learned that you can’t cling on. – Michael Morpurgo
  40. The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don’t change, even when everyone else does. – Ziad K Abdelnour

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