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

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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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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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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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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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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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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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
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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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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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