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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
Knowing
Without
Love
Cared
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Dog

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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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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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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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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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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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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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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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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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