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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Life
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It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.
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Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
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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 beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
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The conversation of bullets.
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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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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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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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I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
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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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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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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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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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