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My son always says I like very weird music.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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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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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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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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