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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
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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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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
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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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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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