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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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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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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
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Even death has a heart.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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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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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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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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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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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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