"When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins."

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Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

Cornelia Funke

#Book Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Theater Quotes

“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
“When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..”
“I would rather be dead than not read”
“The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.”
“Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships”
“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.”
“The sky is the sky wherever you go.”
“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”

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