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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
Tell
Something
Check
Checks
Breathing
Alive

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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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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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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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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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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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She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.
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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
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The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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