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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.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
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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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For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.
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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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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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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
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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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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
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I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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