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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Sticky
Difficult
Spider
Beautiful
Spiders
Around
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Stories
Spinning
Heart
Spells
Every
Seemed
Life
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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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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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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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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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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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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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
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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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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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