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The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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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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The conversation of bullets.
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Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
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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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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.
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It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.
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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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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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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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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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