Words are Yummy

*by Cornelia Funke

“Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“Sometimes it’s a good thing we don’t remember things half as well as books do.”

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

“Beauty and fear make uneasy companions.”

“You know, it’s a funny thing about writers. Most people don’t stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago – they don’t expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces.”

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live in. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”

“Words are immortal – until someone comes along and burns them.”

“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry that its promise had not been kept.”

“…writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”