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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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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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Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.
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Even death has a heart.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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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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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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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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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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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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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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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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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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I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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Everything was good. But it was awful, too.
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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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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
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