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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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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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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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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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It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, Well what's the point of me writing anything? I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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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 observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
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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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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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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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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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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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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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