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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Opportunity
Death
Another
Life
Directly
Leads
Risk

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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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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 you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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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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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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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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The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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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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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
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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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