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Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.


Markus Zusak

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-...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
<...
RUPI KAUR BE REAL

Bring it on-
And let truth be my existence.
Value my life-
And tel...
GIORGE LEEDY Dont test me,
Second guess me,
Protest me,
You will DISAPEAR!

(East Jes...
GREEN DAY I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trap...
NEIL GAIMAN He balled up my discarded
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PETER CANNING I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it...
SARA QUIN "The Lesson":

Yes, my fretting,
Frowning child,
I could cross
The room to y...
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They diligently practice it.
When the average type of m...
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He turned to look at me and narrowed hi...
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The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's...
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“Smile.” TESSA DARE I will arise and go now, for always night and day
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W.B. YEATS So that you will hear me
my words
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D. LOVE Tis but a scratch!"

"A scratch? Your arm's off!"

"No it isn't."

"Th...
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You bastard....
ILONA ANDREWS You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
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NOAM CHOMSKY I want to hear one more of your stories
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‘Pou...
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Cath's eye...
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I don't know.'
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Dad?" Jesus asked.
"Yes, son?" God replied.
"What came before colors?" Jesus asked.
"...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford: We're safe.
Arthur...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Say it."
"Say what?"
"Tell me what you told me earlier."
"I love you."
"That's a...
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Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
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To t...
TIM MCGRAW You've never been in love?
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Oh precious Lord!
Thou know them all
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An...
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He sits down, tired,
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THALIA CHALTAS I love my mother.

My mother loves my dad.

Those two facts are undeniable.
JOHNA PASSARO they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY i want you so much I feel like I'm going to explode."
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DEBORAH BLAKE Deep in the meadow, under the willow
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"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
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KYLEE CARRIER CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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MARK BATTERSON So you want to know all about me. Who
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It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that a...
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER I heard of a man
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wome...
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“Nope.”
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I FUCKING LOVE IT...
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You try ...
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I don't think I wrote them
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RUTA SEPETYS We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
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ILONA ANDREWS I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:<...
PABLO NERUDA Another snowball, this time it impacted on my shoulder.

I dusted the snow off my coat wi...
KARINA HALLE Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations:
MATT HAIG The difference is,
Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
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ORSON SCOTT CARD If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my e...
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Caine must have heard the ...
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help. Aim for what you...
CECELIA AHERN Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI I've been assigned to bodyguard you."
You've got to be kidding me.
Derek snorted. ILONA ANDREWS Because I want her.
Now.
Here.
Everywhere.
I want nothing between us.
I wa...
TAHEREH MAFI The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
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I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sa...
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MARKUS ZUSAK You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I rec...
MARKUS ZUSAK How does it feel, anyway?"
How does what feel?"
When you take one of those books?"
At...
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MARKUS ZUSAK I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
MARKUS ZUSAK Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.
MARKUS ZUSAK A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they...
MARKUS ZUSAK Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
MARKUS ZUSAK He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He m...
MARKUS ZUSAK Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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MARKUS ZUSAK There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at al...
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MARKUS ZUSAK I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage tha...
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"W...
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MARKUS ZUSAK Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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MARKUS ZUSAK A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often...
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She was the bo...
MARKUS ZUSAK I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while ot...
MARKUS ZUSAK The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will...
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MARKUS ZUSAK It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he ha...
MARKUS ZUSAK I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about ...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
MARKUS ZUSAK ***A SMALL THEORY***
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, bu...
MARKUS ZUSAK The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of h...
MARKUS ZUSAK A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A rea...
MARKUS ZUSAK My mouth opened.
It happened.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Awkward.
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MARKUS ZUSAK When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
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MARKUS ZUSAK The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids ha...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particu...
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* Some words
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MARKUS ZUSAK I am haunted by humans.
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...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
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He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments l...
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MARKUS ZUSAK Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometim...
MARKUS ZUSAK A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
MARKUS ZUSAK Even death has a heart.
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MARKUS ZUSAK It kills me sometimes, how people die.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Summer came.
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For me, the sky was the colo...
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MARKUS ZUSAK If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
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MARKUS ZUSAK ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the...
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MARKUS ZUSAK I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I tho...
MARKUS ZUSAK The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his ther...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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MARKUS ZUSAK We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
MARKUS ZUSAK Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever....
MARKUS ZUSAK My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the youn...
MARKUS ZUSAK What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your finge...
MARKUS ZUSAK My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
MARKUS ZUSAK Big things are often just little things that people notice.
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
MARKUS ZUSAK She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun. MARKUS ZUSAK It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk aroun...
MARKUS ZUSAK That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm just another stupid human.
MARKUS ZUSAK If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live...
MARKUS ZUSAK People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things...
MARKUS ZUSAK Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
MARKUS ZUSAK I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.
MARKUS ZUSAK My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.
MARKUS ZUSAK You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
MARKUS ZUSAK Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.
MARKUS ZUSAK It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply est...
MARKUS ZUSAK It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were de...
MARKUS ZUSAK I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on...
MARKUS ZUSAK ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
MARKUS ZUSAK I could smell something. Fear.
I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and...
MARKUS ZUSAK And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through m...
MARKUS ZUSAK 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...
MARKUS ZUSAK 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.
MARKUS ZUSAK I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been...
MARKUS ZUSAK 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...
MARKUS ZUSAK ...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, an...
MARKUS ZUSAK There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ...
MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
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MARKUS ZUSAK 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 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 I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s...
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...
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