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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
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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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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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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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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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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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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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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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