“Every Book longs to tell its story. From the moment they’re bound, they wait for fingers to open them up.” — Cornelia Funke

This is from The Book No One Ever Read, a children’s picture book. 

I've posted three other possible epigraphs on my Dare I Read blog:

#1 possible epigraph

#2 another possible epigraph

#3 possible epigraph for Autobiography of a Book