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Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I'm nothing if not fair"
- Death


Markus Zusak

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A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
MARKUS ZUSAK ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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. . .
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SIMI GREWAL We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
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 DON'T SET...
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- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I feel like I’m going to die,’ he says.
‘Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?�...
DOUG MACLEOD A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
ORSON SCOTT CARD If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If...
LAO TZU Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful…
You dont have to be like everybody ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Mare?"
"Are you afraid, Maven?"
"I am. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this o...
VICTORIA AVEYARD -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

RICK RIORDAN The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
2. Fo...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Are you afraid now?" said Gregor.
"At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were ...
SUZANNE COLLINS What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RU...
NEIL GAIMAN You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you.
It’s not risky for you, ...
CLAUDIA GRAY Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN so what brings you to the doctor today?"
"hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save peop...
DEB CALETTI DEAR GOD, if I survive this near-death experience, I will:
-Well, I already go to church every...
SLIM_SHADY When your afraid of something
you hide behind a mask.
It might be to protect yourself,
KRIS HARTE If you are near ,my heart beats fast,
If you are far, my hearts becomes restless,

Wh...
LUNA MARYM If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
wri...
YRSA DALEY-WARD Haunted

You haunt me in my dreams
I can only hear my drowning screams
Is it bec...
STACE LEE Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I p...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall...
SELENA GóMEZ …Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?” Mandy blurted ou...
REBECCA MCNUTT TRUTH


Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hate...
SUZY KASSEM This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said.
"Okay."
"One, are you sitting dow...
DARYNDA JONES Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to...
FREDERICK SALOMON PERLS The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right."
JODI LYNN ANDERSON TRUTH

Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hated
SUZY KASSEM I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t ...
DAN PEARCE Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, “I see you. I see every part of y...
SARAH J. MAAS It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.

We all s...
VERA NAZARIAN Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?"

"No wonder t...
DENIS JOHNSON when you walk, you look like you’re trying to disappear.
your back is gonna be fucked up.
CAITLYN SIEHL Samurai are born to die.

Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all...
RICK REMENDER YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entit...
KAIDEN BLAKE The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
IAIN M. BANKS - Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?
- Yes
-And are you proud of it?
-I am not ashamed o...
ALAN PATON (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Most important thing in life is family,
Without them you are nothing.
Whatever you do will...
AKASH LAKHOTIA What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wond...
A.A. MILNE You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
RICK RIORDAN and when love came to us twice
and lied to us twice
we decided to never love again
CHARLES BUKOWSKI How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk...
OMAR KHAYYáM You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to...
OSHO Don’t be afraid,

Even if I’ll be unable to See,

I swear, I’ll find you A...
DHRUV AGRAWAL If you are not afraid of death, then you are stupid.
WOHI PURANA Not really hungry."
"She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly.
"I said —"
"If you starve ...
KAREN CHANCE Im not going to change my ways,
just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five b...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON You must not always believe me
when I say I will love you
untill eternity
because lo...
NEENA H BRAR What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women ...
WALT WHITMAN Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, ho...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
EDWIN MORGAN Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive s...
SUHEIR HAMMAD But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die...
CASSANDRA CLARE Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I’m only going say this—love is a wild creature that cannot
be tamed. It’s unconditional....
CANDACE KNOEBEL Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
WILLIAM FAULKNER But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm.

"That depends on whether a man re...
GEORGE MACDONALD for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
RUPI KAUR Please... Please

...

Please tell this people after few more words you are goin...
DEYTH BANGER If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
RUMI I am frightened of nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"Are you extremely frightened of n...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the ...
DARIO FO if one day you feel like crying...
call me
I don't promise that
I will make you laug...
ROBERT J. LAVERY I'm not afraid to die
no today . . . maybe tomorrow.

But I'll not die
no today ...
JOHN ZEA I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.
LEIGH BARDUGO Please... Please

...

Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
DEYTH BANGER who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.

But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.

All life does.
LESLEY LIVINGSTON Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."...
AMIE KAUFMAN I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess,
I think I posses...
RENé DAUMAL It's about time you showed some sense. You should be afraid."
"I'm shivering because I'm freezi...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
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For me, the sky was the colo...
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MARKUS ZUSAK It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowm...
MARKUS ZUSAK ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
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MARKUS ZUSAK If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
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But you're far from this. Your finge...
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You can kill a man with those words.
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She ate that, too.
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I didn't know words could be so heavy.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.
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No gun.
No bullets.
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I could taste it now.
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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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MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
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Papa was an accordion!
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MARKUS ZUSAK ***A KEY WORD***
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MARKUS ZUSAK Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
MARKUS ZUSAK I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's ...
MARKUS ZUSAK How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
MARKUS ZUSAK For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this:
She became thirteen...
MARKUS ZUSAK He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himsel...
MARKUS ZUSAK They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one...
MARKUS ZUSAK I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside ...
MARKUS ZUSAK When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
MARKUS ZUSAK It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.
MARKUS ZUSAK The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.
MARKUS ZUSAK I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's u...
MARKUS ZUSAK In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory hum...
MARKUS ZUSAK You can't eat books, sweetheart.
MARKUS ZUSAK One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.
MARKUS ZUSAK A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that ra...
MARKUS ZUSAK When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w...
MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day...
MARKUS ZUSAK See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re...
MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik...
MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.
MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no...
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