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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
Directly
Leads
Risk
Opportunity
Death
Another
Life

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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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Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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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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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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Even death has a heart.
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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
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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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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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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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