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Markus Zusak Quotes
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
“My heart is so tired.”
“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”
“I am haunted by humans.”
“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”
“I’m just another stupid human.”
“Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what’s it to live.”
“I just want to write someone’s favorite book.”
“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”
“First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”
“Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.”
“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
“It’s about glowing lights and small things that are big.”
“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”
The Book Thief Quotes
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“She was saying goodbye and she didn’t even know it.”
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
Bridge of Clay Quotes
“There are hundreds of thoughts per every word spoken, and that’s if they’re spoken at all.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“We skip the moments like stones.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“Me, I’m known for bruises and levelheadedness, for height and muscle and blasphemy, and the occasional sentimentality.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“He was a great horse,” she went on, “and the perfect story—we wouldn’t love him so much if he’d lived.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“He was a wasteland in a suit; he was bent-postured, he was broken.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“When you wait you start feeling deserved.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“…somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn’t so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
“Each boy stood, slouched yet stiff, hands in pockets. If the dog had pockets, she’d have had her paws in them, too, for sure.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
I Am the Messenger Quotes
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“It’s not a big thing, but I guess it’s true–big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“Believe it or not–it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“I’d rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“Only in today’s sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don’t ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”
“Of course you’re real-like any thought or any story. It’s real when you’re in it.”
“Big things are often just little things that people notice.”
“My voice is like a rumour. I’m not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.”
Fighting Ruben Wolfe Quotes
“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, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn’t make a winner a fighter.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“I’m gonna hunt my life down and grab it.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“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, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.”
“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”
“It’s the sound of my breathing that gets me, pouring down into my lungs and then tripping back up my throat.”
“How’d it feel?” Rube asked himself. “I don’t know exactly, but it made me want to howl.”
“The thing is, I don’t even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.”
Underdog Quotes
“A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“The happening that happened was that I met this girl …”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn’t feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores – like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city’s skin.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“My own eyes try to sleep, but they don’t. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“Because you don’t learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
“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. Stars are dying.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog
