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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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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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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
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What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
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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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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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I love to read aloud.
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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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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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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
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