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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
On quite a few occasions Liesel forgot about her mother and any other problem of which she currently held ownership.
She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.
I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...
Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question.
it's a question.
As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
She could only hope they could read the depth of sorrow in her face, to recognize that it was true, and not fleeting.
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you.
-Liesel
-Liesel
Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.
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.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
I'm still standing here. Okay, it's a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn't the same?
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
I am stupid" Hans Hubermann told his foster daughter " And kind, which makes me the biggest idiot in the world.
The last thing I wanted was to look down at the stranded face of my teenager. A pretty girl. Her whole death was now ahead of her.
He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.
He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone.
It's also worthy of mention that every pattern has at least one small bias, and one day it will tip itself over or fall from one page to another.
The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts.
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.
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.
He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
Duden Dictionary Meaning #2
Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment.
Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment.
The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.
He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.