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Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.Cornelia Funke
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So what? All writers are lunatics!Cornelia Funke
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And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.Cornelia Funke
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said.." As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells..and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower..both strange and familiar.Cornelia Funke
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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.Cornelia Funke
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If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.Cornelia Funke
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Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first pageCornelia Funke
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?Cornelia Funke
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That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!Cornelia Funke