Cornelia Funke Quotes

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.

A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new space.

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.

He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low growl. 'Never fails.' I turned to Kit. 'How is she?' 'We’re going to take her back to the house now. She’s unconscious again.' 'Then we’ll walk back,' Derek said. 'Give you room in the van to lay her down.' His dad agreed and went back inside. As we walked toward the steps, I looked down at Derek’s hand, holding mine. 'No one’s around,' he said. 'And we can take the back way.' 'Good,' I said, and entwined my fingers with his.

Being close ain't good enough.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

To me, love has always meant friendship.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.