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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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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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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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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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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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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
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His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.
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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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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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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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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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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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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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