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Reality is a fragile thing.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Screenwriter
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Fragile
Reality
Thing

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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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.
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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
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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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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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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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I love to read aloud.
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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
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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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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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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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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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