I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.
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I stared at my damp tent ceiling,... ASPEN MATIS Just then the lady of the house came walking in and saw me with my pants down, wrapped around my ank... KARL HEPNER They told tales as they sat at their work, and every one related what wonderful things he had seen o... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I ... TRACIE MILES From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ... GAVIN O'CONNOR Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing w... NANCY KERRIGAN I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living th... STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was wri... 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JASON MRAZ Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, l... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa... THOMAS MERTON I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ... PETE MCDANIEL I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou... MICKY DOLENZ Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my ches... RICHELLE MEAD What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel li... HARUKI MURAKAMI The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Ta... CARRIE UNDERWOOD What I saw with my kids was consistent with what I had been hearing, ... I looked around at local (W... 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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 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... MARKUS ZUSAK 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... MARKUS ZUSAK 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 MARKUS ZUSAK ... the city around us seemed colder than ever again, and I realised that even if it really had sens... MARKUS ZUSAK The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in ... MARKUS ZUSAK Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? MARKUS ZUSAK Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times. MARKUS ZUSAK You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd p... MARKUS ZUSAK An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid. MARKUS ZUSAK My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence dr... MARKUS ZUSAK It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but... 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 Here is a small fact: You are going to die" "does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I... 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... MARKUS ZUSAK