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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Make
Leave
Sure
Place
Better
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I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.
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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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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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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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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
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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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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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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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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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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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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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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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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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