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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.
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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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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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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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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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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