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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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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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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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The conversation of bullets.
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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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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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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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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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 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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The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.
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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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