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

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Ferocity
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Swear
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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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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Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
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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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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
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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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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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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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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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