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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Shoot
Dog
Already
Dead

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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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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.
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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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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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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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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.
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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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I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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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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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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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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… 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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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
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