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

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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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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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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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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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
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I love to read aloud.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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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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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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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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