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

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Without
Love
Cared
Expressed
Showing
Dog
Knowing

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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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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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There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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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 I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
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It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, Well what's the point of me writing anything? I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.
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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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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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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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