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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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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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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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The day was gray, the color of Europe.
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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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