Markus Zusak - Fighting Ruben Wolfe (2000)

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Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

Markus Zusak

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

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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

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Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

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The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

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