More quotes by Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
"Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once."
"Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."
"It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place"
"It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.."