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

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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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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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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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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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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I love to read aloud.
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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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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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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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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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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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