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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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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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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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I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
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As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
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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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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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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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