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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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The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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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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Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.
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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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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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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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