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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
Needs
Life
Funeral
Inspire
Guess
Words
Means
Need
Mean

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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 look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
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