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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
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Sweetheart

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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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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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When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
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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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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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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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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
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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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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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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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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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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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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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Competence was attractive.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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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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