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

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
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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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And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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What a plague love is!
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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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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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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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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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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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.
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We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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