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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.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
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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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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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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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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
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The conversation of bullets.
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Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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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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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.
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The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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