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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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She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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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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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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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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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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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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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.
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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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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
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