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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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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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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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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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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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