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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
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Sydney
NSW
Shoot
Dog
Already
Dead

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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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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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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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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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