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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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I love to read aloud.
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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
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You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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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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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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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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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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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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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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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 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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