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

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.
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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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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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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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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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It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
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