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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
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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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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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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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The conversation of bullets.
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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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How'd it feel? Rube asked himself. I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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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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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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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 had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.
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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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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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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.
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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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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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