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We came out flat. We've gotten away with a few (awful starts) against lesser-skilled teams, but I think it's time for us to take a good look in the mirror now and start preparing to find a way to be ready early in games.


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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 Socks comprised of 60 to 80 percent cotton woven with 15 to 20 percent nylon also showed a higher CO...
MARKUS SMILEY Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikelie...
MARKUS HEITZ I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply est...
MARKUS ZUSAK VALUE IS THE FINANCIAL EXPRESSION OF RARITY
MARKUS JERGER 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 The doorway page is only designed to give a search engine an idea of what's on the page behind it.
MARKUS SAGEMANN 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 Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing wh...
OLIVER MARKUS Don't ever think you're better than a drug addict, because your brain works the same as theirs. You ...
OLIVER MARKUS 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...
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 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...
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
MARKUS ZUSAK