Markus Zusak Quotes

I guess it’s for life beyond these pages.

I have loved words, I have hated them, and I hope I have used them well.

I however, try to enjoy every color I see the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same.

I know what happens and so do you. It’s the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.

I laugh and the stars watch.

I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, th...

I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down...

I think she ate a salad and some soup.And loneliness.She ate that, too.

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

I urge you - don't be afraid. I'm nothing if not fair

I want words at my funeral.But I guess that means you need life in your life.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. None of those things, however, came out of my mouth. All I was able to do w...

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.

I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.

I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the color of rain.

I would have not taken it badly. After reading ‘The Book Thief’, I discovered that she called everyone that ‘Saukerl’, ‘Saumensen’. Especially the people she loved

I'd wanted to stay on that porch with him until the sun shone bright on both of us, but I didn't. I stood up and walked down the steps. I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

If I’m ever going to be okay, I’ll have to earn it.