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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Opportunity
Death
Another
Life
Directly
Leads
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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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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The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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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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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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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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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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