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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
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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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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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.
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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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It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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I am hunted by humans.
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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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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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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You can't eat books, sweetheart.
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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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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
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