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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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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
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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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Even death has a heart.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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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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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
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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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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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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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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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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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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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