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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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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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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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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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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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