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Markus Zusak Inspirational Quotes (202)

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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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How'd it feel? Rube asked himself. I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
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I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
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