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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
Author
Illustrator
Screenwriter
Writer
Love
Feelings
Remembered
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Vulnerable
Still
Unhappy
Firsts
Clearly
First
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Heart
Feeling
Quivering
Thing
Happiness
Miserably
Time
Happy
Trembling

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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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