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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.
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
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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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