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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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My son always says I like very weird music.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.
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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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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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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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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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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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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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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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