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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Hearts
Inside
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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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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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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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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
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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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Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.
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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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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
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Competence was attractive.
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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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 think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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