Markus Zusak Quotes

I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor.

I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside hims...

I tell me:Let these words be footsteps, because I have a long way to travel. Let the words walk the dirty streets. Let them make their way across the crying grass. Let them stand and breathe and pant...

I think only one thing.Where 's Octavia? As I get closer to the bottom, I notice that it's water that I'm falling into. It's salty-green and smooth, until...I'm driven through the surface and go deepe...

I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at the world above. I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the col...

I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. I watched

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimat...

I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I’d slice it open and climb through to the next one.

I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

I'll never forget the first day in Auschwitz, the first time in Mauthausen. At that second place, as time wore on, I also picked them up from the bottom of the great cliff, when their escapes fell awf...

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

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

Ich... Er kämpfte mit der Antwort. Als alles still war, bin ich hinaufgegangen, und im Flur habe ich gesehen, dass der Vorhang im Wohnzimmer einen Spalt offen stand... ich konnte nach draußen sehen. I...

If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

In all honesty (and I know I’m complaining excessively now), I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia. The so-called second revolution—the murder of his own people. Then came Hitler. They say that w...

In mid-February, when she turned ten, Liesel was given a used doll that had a missing leg and yellow hair. It was the best we could do, Papa apologized. What are you talking about? She’s lucky to have...