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Even death has a heart.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 50
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Life
Inspire
Death
Even
Heart

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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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How'd it feel? Rube asked himself. I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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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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Competence was attractive.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
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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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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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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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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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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
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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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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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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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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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