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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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What a plague love is!
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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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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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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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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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
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I love to read aloud.
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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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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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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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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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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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