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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Screenwriter
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Hardly
Eternal
Longer
Written
Word
Insect
Lives
Insects
Nothing
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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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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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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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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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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
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What a plague love is!
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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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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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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