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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
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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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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The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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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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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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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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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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