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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Mother
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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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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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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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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The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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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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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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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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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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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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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?
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The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
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There were stars. They burned my eyes.
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