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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
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
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Rumours
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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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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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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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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I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
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The day was gray, the color of Europe.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.
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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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