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Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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Everyone is small at night.
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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
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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 wish I had more time to visit schools.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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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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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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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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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