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• And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

  Cornelia Funke

  Names, Example, Conversation

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• Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

  Cornelia Funke

  Teeth, Lines, Poor

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.

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• They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

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  Cash, Detectives, Counterfeit

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• This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.' With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. 'They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

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  Dark, Thinking, Hair

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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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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  Book, Doors, Curiosity

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

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  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Fall, Weather

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

  Cornelia Funke

  Air, Voice, Empty

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

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  Night, Foxes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.62, Chicken House

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• Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

  Cornelia Funke

  Companion, Uneasy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.95, Chicken House

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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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Rain, Hands, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.324, Scholastic Inc.

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• He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

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  Father, Stories, Ears

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• Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Home, Eye, His Eyes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.33, Chicken House

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• What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

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  Book, House, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Solitude

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• believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

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  Believe, Heart, Light

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Tintenblut”, p.309, Dressler Verlag

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• They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

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  People, World, Said

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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• Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?

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  Blood, White, Bird

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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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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  Men, Knives, Faces

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.399, Chicken House

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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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• 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!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Order, Different

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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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  Eye, Sound, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. 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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  Book, Doe, Stories

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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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