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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.)

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
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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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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
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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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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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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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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, Well what's the point of me writing anything? I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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