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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.
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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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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
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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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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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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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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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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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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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