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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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What a plague love is!
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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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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No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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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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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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