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Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Name: Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Author: Markus Zusak

Fighting Ruben Wolfe is a young adult fiction novel by Markus Zusak. Originally published in Australia by Omnibus in 2000, the first American Hardcover printing was by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press, February, 2001. First soft cover edition was printed in February, 2002. Fighting Ruben Wolfe is the second book featuring brothers Cameron and Ruben Wolfe and their family. The first book is The Underdog and the third book is When Dogs Cry.

“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”

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“It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Variant: 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?
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“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”

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“It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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