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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Writer
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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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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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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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Competence was attractive.
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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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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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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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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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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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