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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Speak
Hard
Men
Like
Notices
Colors
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Color

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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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He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
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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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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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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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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.
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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.
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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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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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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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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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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.
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