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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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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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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.
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