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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
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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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Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.
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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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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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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
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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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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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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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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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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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