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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
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I am hunted by humans.
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I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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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?
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
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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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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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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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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
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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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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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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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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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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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