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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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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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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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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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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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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
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Even death has a heart.
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Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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