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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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Small
Everyone
Night

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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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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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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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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
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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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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
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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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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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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
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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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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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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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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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