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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Writer
Sydney
NSW
Crisis
Woman
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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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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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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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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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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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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I am hunted by humans.
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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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