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Everyone is small at night.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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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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What a plague love is!
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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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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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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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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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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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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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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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No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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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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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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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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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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