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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
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Sydney
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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
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I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.
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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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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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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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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
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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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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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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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