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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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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Pillow
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Ears
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo
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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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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
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Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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