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I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Drown
Unless
Persons
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Competence was attractive.
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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