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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.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
Say something enough times and you never forget it.
— Markus Zusak
The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
— Markus Zusak
*** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did. — Markus Zusak
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did. — Markus Zusak
Footsteps crease the grass behind us.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. We smile a last smile, and I walk away. I feel her watching me, but I don't look back.
— Markus Zusak
I'm afraid, of falling asleep again.
— Markus Zusak
In a way, it was destiny.
— Markus Zusak
The voice was crippled, but it dragged its way towards her.
— Markus Zusak
He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you realise how much it means to you.
— Markus Zusak
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?
— Markus Zusak
I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.
— Markus Zusak
They watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.
— Markus Zusak
breathing then, for
— Markus Zusak
The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.
— Markus Zusak
When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?
— Markus Zusak
Are you looking at a dead man now?
— Markus Zusak
And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.
— Markus Zusak
It's pathetic - how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great. Trudy
— Markus Zusak
You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground. — Markus Zusak
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground. — Markus Zusak
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
— Markus Zusak
Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?
— Markus Zusak
He was tall and abrupt and exactly the kind of guy you wanted to be walking the streets with.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
— Markus Zusak
As always, one of her books was next to her.
— Markus Zusak
Never had movement been such a burden. Never had a heart been so definite and big in her adolescent chest.
— Markus Zusak
We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.
— Markus Zusak
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
He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit. — Markus Zusak
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit. — Markus Zusak
Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you.
— Markus Zusak
They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip -
— Markus Zusak
Well, promise me one thing, Liesel. If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right.
— Markus Zusak
He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection.
— Markus Zusak
The bombs were coming-and so was I.
— Markus Zusak
Even death has a heart.
— Markus Zusak
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
— Markus Zusak
Everything was good.
But it was awful, too. — Markus Zusak
But it was awful, too. — Markus Zusak
They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent. — Markus Zusak
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent. — Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
Because deep down you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.
— Markus Zusak
The day was gray, the color of Europe.
— Markus Zusak
Why me? I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
— Markus Zusak
Mama's eyes were like pale blue cutouts, pasted to her face.
— Markus Zusak
I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.
— Markus Zusak
If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
— Markus Zusak
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
A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard ... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before it's subject has become famous?
— Markus Zusak
***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die. — Markus Zusak
You are going to die. — Markus Zusak
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
— Markus Zusak
Chapter One: It was quite fitting that the entire town was sleeping when the dream carrier was born ...
— Markus Zusak
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.
— Markus Zusak
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
— Markus Zusak
When they came together, Michael apologized.
— Markus Zusak
She waited for the suffocation of sleep.
— Markus Zusak
A bathrobe answered the door. Inside it, a woman ...
— Markus Zusak
A day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.
— Markus Zusak
Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.
— Markus Zusak
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
— Markus Zusak
He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.
— Markus Zusak
God damn, you were so beautiful, Mama.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.
— Markus Zusak
The stars set fire to my eyes.
— Markus Zusak
I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.
— Markus Zusak
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.
— Markus Zusak
A small fact:
You are going to die ... does this worry you? — Markus Zusak
You are going to die ... does this worry you? — Markus Zusak
How do you give someone a piece of sky?
— Markus Zusak
***A KEY WORD***
Imagined — Markus Zusak
Imagined — Markus Zusak
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true
big things are often just small things that are noticed. — Markus Zusak
big things are often just small things that are noticed. — Markus Zusak
Herr Vogel from Heide Strasse. Made all his money from his father. He throws it away on women
— Markus Zusak
Behind me, a teddy bear was resting on the shoulder of a corpse. A lemon candle stood below the branches. The pilot's soul was in my arms.
— Markus Zusak
When reason fails, the devil helps!
— Markus Zusak
Do you still play the accordian?
— Markus Zusak