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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
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Everyone is small at night.
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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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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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?
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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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