"There was another reason [she] took her books……" — Cornelia Funke
"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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Cornelia Funke
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172 Quotes by Cornelia Funke
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by…
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives…
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children…
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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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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