Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia FunkeWhy could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
Cornelia FunkeWhen 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.
Cornelia Funke