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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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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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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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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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Believe, believe, believe
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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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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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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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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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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