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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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