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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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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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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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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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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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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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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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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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You can do anything when it's not real.
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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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Even death has a heart.
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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