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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!

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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