Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the same behavior in real life?
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* Some words
MARKUS ZUSAK A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am haunted by humans.
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you'...
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 One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
MARKUS ZUSAK She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.
MARKUS ZUSAK My heart is so tired
MARKUS ZUSAK The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]...
MARKUS ZUSAK His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and...
MARKUS ZUSAK How about a kiss, Saumensch?"
He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments l...
MARKUS ZUSAK If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laug...
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.
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her a...
MARKUS ZUSAK It kills me sometimes, how people die.
MARKUS ZUSAK Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
MARKUS ZUSAK I haven't had much contact with Mayer. I don't know what he has done wrong now or why he shouldn't c...
MARKUS GANDLER I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.
MARKUS GANDLER Summer came.
For the book thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the colo...
MARKUS ZUSAK I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? I...
MARKUS ZUSAK 'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I...
MARKUS PERSSON There are still some significant differences of opinion. But a century ago, pacifists were guilty of...
MARKUS FURRER Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Face...
MARKUS PERSSON