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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
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Swear
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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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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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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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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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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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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.
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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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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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She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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