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I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
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Think
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Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.
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I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
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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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You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
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The day was gray, the color of Europe.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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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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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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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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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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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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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
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I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.
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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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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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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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