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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Love
Cared
Expressed
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Dog
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.
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How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
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It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.
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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
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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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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
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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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And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
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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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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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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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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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