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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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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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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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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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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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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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The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
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