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

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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Even death has a heart.
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I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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Competence was attractive.
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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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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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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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...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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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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