Desire Quote by Cornelia Funke

““What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun””

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

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