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The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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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 day was gray, the color of Europe.
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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.
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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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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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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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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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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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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
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The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
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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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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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