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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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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
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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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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.
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There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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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 love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
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Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
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