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My son always says I like very weird music.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
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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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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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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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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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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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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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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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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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