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Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

Cornelia Funke

Fire, Water, Said

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She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

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Kings, Book, Hero

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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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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Daughter, Spring, Book

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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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Night, Sky, White

Cornelia Funke (2010). “Reckless”, p.67, Hachette UK

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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

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Sweet, Father, Passion

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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

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Children, Book, Stories

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All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

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Children, Book, Dust

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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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Heart, Voice, Giving

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.304, Scholastic Inc.

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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

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Dream, Dust, Gold

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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

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Dog, Horse, Pigs

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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

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Book, Strange Places, Ideas

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

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Heart, Taste, Heart Love

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.435, Chicken House

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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

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Gun, World, Want

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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

Cornelia Funke

Book, Pay, Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

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Book, Half, Remember

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

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Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

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Book, Kissing, Laughing

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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Heart, Imagination, Mind

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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Heart, Animal, Somewhere Else

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

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Believe, Night, Devil

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

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Stars, Reflection, Night

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

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Stupid, Hero, Knives

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House

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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

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Teaching, Thinking, Our World

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Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

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Book, Order, Different

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I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

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Girl, Book, Men

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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.

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Fun, Fear, Reading

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.117, Chicken House

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