"I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books."

-- Cornelia Funke

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Fairytale Quotes

“We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host”
“After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.”
“There is no good war or bad peace”
“In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.”
“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”
“Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.”
“An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.”
“Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.”

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