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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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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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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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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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Words are immortal - Elinor
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
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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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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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