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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
    Stephen King

  • #2
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #3
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #4
    Cornelia Funke
    “Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

  • #5
    Cornelia Funke
    “He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

  • #6
    Cornelia Funke
    “Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #7
    Cornelia Funke
    “Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #8
    Cornelia Funke
    “a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

  • #9
    Cornelia Funke
    “Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

  • #10
    Cornelia Funke
    “Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

  • #11
    Cornelia Funke
    “In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
    tags: love

  • #12
    Cornelia Funke
    “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #13
    Cornelia Funke
    “Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #14
    “Black is a girl's best friend.”
    Ellen Schreiber, The Coffin Club

  • #15
    Cornelia Funke
    “A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

  • #16
    “My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.”
    Ellen Schreiber, Royal Blood

  • #17
    “Who needs an umbrella in the rain?" she said, and stepped into the car.”
    Ellen Schreiber, Royal Blood

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."
    Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.
    What did you tell her?"
    I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."
    Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron’s got?"
    A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    Stephen King, Storm of the Century

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King



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