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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.
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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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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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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