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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Good
Rosa
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Crisis
Woman

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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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..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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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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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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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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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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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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You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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Competence was attractive.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.
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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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Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.
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I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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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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