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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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 want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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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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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
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You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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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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