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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Butterfly
Adults
Felt
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Caterpillar
Children
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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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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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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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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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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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