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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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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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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 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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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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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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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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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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I am hunted by humans.
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I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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