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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.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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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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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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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 put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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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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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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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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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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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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