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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.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Right
Answer
Always
Dying
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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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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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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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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