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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
Inspire
Guess
Words
Means
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Life
Funeral

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You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember
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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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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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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
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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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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, That's what I want to do with my life.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
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Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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