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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
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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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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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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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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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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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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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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I am hunted by humans.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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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 looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember
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She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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