Markus Zusak Quotes

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You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

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Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.'...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

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And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.

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Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

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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.

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To swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

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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.

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Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew, the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

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Oh, come on, Arthur." "I don't want to hear it, Andy." "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.

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"When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face."

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Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.

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She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.

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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 overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. 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.

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It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

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Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

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Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

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

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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.

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And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.

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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

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Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.

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