“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”
"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells... and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like pressed flower... both strange and familiar."
- Cornelia Funke
Inspiration
"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?"
- Cornelia Funke
Reflection
"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it."
- Cornelia Funke
Reflection
"Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like pressed flower… both strange and familiar."
- Cornelia Funke
Reflection
"A library book, I imagine, is a happy book."
- Cornelia Funke
Joy
"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."
- Beauty and the Beast
Transformation
"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Transformation
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"
Transformation