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

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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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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.
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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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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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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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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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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 paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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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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