How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

Markus Zusak

Tags: life death breathing



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***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.

Markus Zusak

Tags: death fact



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It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.

Markus Zusak

Tags: world death color white



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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

Markus Zusak

Tags: books paper



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***A KEY WORD***
Imagined

Markus Zusak

Tags: hope imagine



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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Markus Zusak

Tags: words fire meanings



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She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story. In the times ahead, that story would arrive at 33 Himmel Street in the early hours of morning, wearing ruffled shoulders and a shivering jacket. It would carry a suitcase, a book, and two questions. A story. Story after story. Story within story.

Markus Zusak

Tags: story



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The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

Markus Zusak


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… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Markus Zusak


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First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.

Markus Zusak


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