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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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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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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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