Defeat Quote by Markus Zusak

““One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.””

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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

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I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility,…

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“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black.…

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“I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do”

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You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched…

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“When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when…

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Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

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In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much…

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“«¿Por qué no puede oírlo el resto del mundo? —me pregunto. En pocos segundos me lo pregunto muchas veces—. Porque no le importa —me…

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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

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I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a…

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