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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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 plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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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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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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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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We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
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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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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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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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