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Words are immortal - Elinor

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Elinor
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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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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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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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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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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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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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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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