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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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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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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
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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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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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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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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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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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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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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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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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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
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