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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Small
Bigs
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Things
Glowing

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The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.
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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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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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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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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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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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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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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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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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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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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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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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