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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
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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 my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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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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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, That's what I want to do with my life.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
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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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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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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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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.
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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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You can do anything when it's not real.
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The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
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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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