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Markus Zusak Inspirational Quotes (202)

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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
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For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, That's what I want to do with my life.
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
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And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
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You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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