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Competence was attractive.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Competence
Attractive

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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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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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I am hunted by humans.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.
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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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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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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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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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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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