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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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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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Reality is a fragile thing.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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