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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Alive
Stars
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Laugh
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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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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He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
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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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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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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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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
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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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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.
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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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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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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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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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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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