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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
Talent

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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
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I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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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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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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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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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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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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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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