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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.” quote by Cornelia Funke — Download Open image

“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

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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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“Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he could really protect her from Capricorn and Basta and all the others. But he couldn't. Would Mo be able to protect her? Of course not. He mustn't come, she thought. Please. Perhaps he won't be able…

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

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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…

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

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