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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Nothing
Fearlessness
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Fear

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Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.
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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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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 daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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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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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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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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No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
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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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Words are immortal - Elinor
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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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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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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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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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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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