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Even death has a heart.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Inspire
Death
Even
Heart
Life

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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
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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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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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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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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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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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Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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