...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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How does what feel?"
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"W...
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It happened.
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* Some words
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MARKUS ZUSAK Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
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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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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.
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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.
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I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and...
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MARKUS ZUSAK Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
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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.
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So am I.'- Rudy
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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...
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MARKUS ZUSAK ***A KEY WORD***
Imagined
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MARKUS ZUSAK When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
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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