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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.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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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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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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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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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
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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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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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