- This is an Out of universe article about the quotes Cornelia Funke used in the very beginning of each chapter within the third and last book of the trilogy. For In-universe notable quotes from the book, see the chapter sections of the book page, or visit the character pages individually to check notable quotes by them.
The list of quotes used in the beginning of every Inkdeath chapter.
Chapters 1-5[]
- Ch. 1: Nothing But a Dog and a Sheet of Paper
“ | Hark, the footsteps of the night |
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— Rilke, Sacrifice to the Lares, from Vigils III
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- Ch. 2: Only a Village
“ | The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, |
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— Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman
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- Ch. 3: Written Silver
“ | To what was sombre he was most disposed |
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— Arthur Rimbaud, The Poet at Seven Years Old
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- Ch. 4: Ink-Clothes
“ | It seems only yesterday I used to believe |
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— Billy Collins, On Turning Ten
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- Ch. 5: Fenoglio Feels Sorry for Himself
“ | "What is this?" Harry asked shakily. "This? This is called a Pensieve," said Dumbledore. "I sometimes find, and I'm sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind." |
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— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Chapters 6-10[]
- Ch. 6: Sad Ombra
“ | My courtiers called me the happy prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery in the city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but to weep. | ” |
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
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- Ch. 7: A Dangerous Visit
“ | The question, given God's omniscient view, |
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— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (modernized)
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- Ch. 8: Roxane’s Pain
“ | "Hope," said Sleet bitterly. "I've learned to live without it." | ” |
— Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
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- Ch. 9: A Giveaway
“ | "You're gong to stop cruelty?" she asked. "And greediness, and all those things? I don't think you could. You're very clever, but oh no, you couldn't do anything like that." | ” |
— Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
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- Ch. 10: As If Nothing Had Happened
“ | How cruel the earth, the willows shimmering, |
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— Louise Glück, Lament
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Chapters 11-15[]
- Ch. 11: Sick with Longing
“ | I lost a world the other day. |
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— Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
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- Ch. 12: Back in the Service of Orpheus
“ | Come close and consider the words. |
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— Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Looking for Poetry
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- Ch. 13: A Knife through the Heart
“ | So far as he was concerned, as yet, there might never have been such a thing as a single particle of sorrow on the gay, sweet surface of the dew-glittering world. | ” |
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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- Ch. 14: News from Ombra
“ | And leafing through old books we sometimes find |
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— Rainer Maria Rilke, Improvisations from Capri in Winter III
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- Ch. 15: Loud Words, Soft Words
“ | When you go, space closes over like water behind you, |
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— Ivan V. Lalic, Places We Love
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Chapters 16-20[]
- Ch. 16: The Piper's Offer
“ | The moment comes when a character does or says something you haven't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. | ” |
— Graham Greene, Advice to Writers
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- Ch. 17: The Wrong Fear
“ | You wish for something you don't really want, the dream says. |
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— Paavo Haavikko, The Trees Breathe Gently
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- Ch. 18: A Dangerous Ally
“ | All day long he was docile, intelligent, good |
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— Arthur Rimbaud, The Poet at Seven Years Old
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- Ch. 19: Soldiers' Hands
“ | Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker? | ” |
— Garth Nix, Sabriel
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- Ch. 20: A Sleepless Night
“ | When despair for the world grows in me |
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— Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
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Chapters 21-25[]
- Ch. 21: Sharp Words
“ | Oh, please! he felt his heart say to him. Oh, please, let me leave! | ” |
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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- Ch. 22: Taking the Bait
“ | If Jim had been able to read he might now have noticed a remarkable circumstance...but the fact was that Jim couldn't read. | ” |
— Michael Ende, Jim Knopf and the Wild 13
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- Ch. 23: The Graveyard of the Strolling Players
“ | He sits down on a hill and sings. They are songs of magic, strong enough to wake the dead to life. Softly, cautiously, his song rises, then it grows louder and more insistent, until the turf opens up and the cold earth cracks. | ” |
— Tor Age Bringsværd, The Wild Gods
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- Ch. 24: To Blame
“ | Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very own presence can come together. | ” |
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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- Ch. 25: The End and the Beginning
“ | Here is a small fact. You are going to die. | ” |
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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Chapters 26-30[]
- Ch. 26: A Familiar Voice
- Ch. 27: Lost and Back Again
- Ch. 28: A New Song
“ | Bright hope arises from the dark |
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— Fenoglio, The Bluejay Songs
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- Ch. 29: A Visitor to Orpheus's Cellar
- Ch. 30: Sootbird's Fire
“ | Life's but a walking show, a poor player |
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— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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Chapters 31-35[]
- Ch. 31: The Bluejay's Answer
“ | "I want to be of use," Homer began, but Dr. Larch wouldn't listen"Then you are not permitted to hide," said Larch. "You are not permitted to look away." | ” |
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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- Ch. 32: At Last
- Ch. 33: Herbs for Her Ugliness
- Ch. 34: Burnt Words
- Ch. 35: The Next Verse
Chapters 36-40[]
- Ch. 36: A Surprising Visitor
- Ch. 37: Only a Magpie
- Ch. 38: A Greeting to the Piper
- Ch. 39: Stolen Children
- Ch. 40: A New Cage
“ | Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. | ” |
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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Chapters 41-45[]
- Ch. 41: Pictures from the Ashes
“ | Dumbledore shook his head."Curiosity is not a sin," he said, "But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed..." | ” |
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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- Ch. 42: An Audience with the Adderhead
- Ch. 43: Four Berries
- Ch. 44: The Hand of Death
- Ch. 45: Written and Unwritten
Chapters 46-50[]
- Ch. 46: The Castle in the Lake
- Ch. 47: The Role of Women
- Ch. 48: Waiting
- Ch. 49: Masters New and Old
- Ch. 50: Lazy Old Man
Chapters 51-55[]
- Ch. 51: The Wrong Helpers
“ | We never know we go — when we are going |
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— Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
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- Ch. 52: The Dead Men in the Forest
- Ch. 53: Human Nests
- Ch. 54: The White Whispering
- Ch. 55: The Wrong Time
Chapters 56-60[]
- Ch. 56: Fire and Darkness
“ | What was Right, what was Wrong? What distinguished Doing from Not Doing? If I were to have my time again, the old King thought, i would bury myself in a monastery, for fear of a Doing which might lead to woe. | ” |
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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- Ch. 57: Too Late
“ | "Rat," said the Mole, "I simply can't go and turn in, and go to sleep, and do nothing, even though there doesn't seem to be anything to be done." | ” |
— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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- Ch. 58: Help from Mountains Far Away
- Ch. 59: The Bluejay's Angels
- Ch. 60: Mother and Son
Chapters 61-65[]
- Ch. 61: Clothed and Unclothed
- Ch. 62: Black?
- Ch. 63: Ah, Fenoglio!
- Ch. 64: Light
- Ch. 65: Made Visible
Chapters 66-70[]
- Ch. 66: Love Disguised as Hate
- Ch. 67: The Other Name
- Ch. 68: Back
- Ch. 69: The Adderhead's Bedchamber
- Ch. 70: Burning Words
Chapters 71-75[]
- Ch. 71: The Bookbinder
- Ch. 72: So Many Tears
- Ch. 73: The Night-Mare
- Ch. 74: The Other Side
- Ch. 75: The Book
Chapters 76-81[]
- Ch. 76: White Night
- Ch. 77: Over
- Ch. 78: Staked on the Wrong Card
- Ch. 79: Leaving
- Ch. 80: Ombra
- Ch. 81: Later
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