Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.


Christopher Markus

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Don't ever think you're better than a drug addict, because your brain works the same as theirs. You ...
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When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the pe...
OLIVER MARKUS
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguel...
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At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK
Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.
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I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled tha...
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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes y...
OLIVER MARKUS
You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
MARKUS ZUSAK
They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appea...
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, an...
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There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ...
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What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
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It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach ...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Only about 3 percent of animal species are monogamous. A couple of penguins, some otters and a few o...
OLIVER MARKUS
Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat w...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma...
MARKUS ZUSAK
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is...
MARKUS ZUSAK
The commitment and work ethic has been the biggest difference.
MARKUS NASLUND
It was really the only choice for me and my family. We've had the best years of our lives here and I...
MARKUS NASLUND
We didn't have the bounces tonight and it's as simple as that. It seemed like everything they tried ...
MARKUS NASLUND
We have to be in control and not be nervous. When we were up 4-3, we kind of stopped playing and jus...
MARKUS NASLUND
It does make a difference to finish off with a win. It's been a disappointing year for us. I don't t...
MARKUS NASLUND
It's been there since halfway through the season. Yeah, it's been there all year and it's sad and di...
MARKUS NASLUND
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile...
MARKUS ZUSAK
When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the ba...
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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the n...
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She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-s...
MARKUS ZUSAK
***A KEY WORD***
Imagined
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... the city around us seemed colder than ever again, and I realised that even if it really had sens...
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