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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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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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I love to read aloud.
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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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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 heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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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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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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