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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Check
Checks
Breathing
Alive
Tell
Something

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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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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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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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