“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

—  Cornelia Funke, Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

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