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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Sweetheart
Books
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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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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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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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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.
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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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You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
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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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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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