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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Guess
Words
Means
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Mean
Needs
Life
Funeral
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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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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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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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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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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Competence was attractive.
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