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You can do anything when it's not real.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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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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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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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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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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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.
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I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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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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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
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