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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Intoxicating
Hope
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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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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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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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Everyone is small at night.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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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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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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What a plague love is!
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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