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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
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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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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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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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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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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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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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