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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
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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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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.
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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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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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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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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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo
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