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The bombs were coming-and so was I.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Bombs
Coming

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The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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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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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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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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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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Even death has a heart.
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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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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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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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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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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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