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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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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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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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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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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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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
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Competence was attractive.
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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
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