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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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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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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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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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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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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
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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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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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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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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
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I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
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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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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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