"Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating."
— 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)

" And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"'I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'
--spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath'"
— Cornelia Funke