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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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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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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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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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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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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
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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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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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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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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
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Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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