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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.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
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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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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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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
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Competence was attractive.
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You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
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It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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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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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
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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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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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Even death has a heart.
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Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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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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