Markus Zusak Short Quotes

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

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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

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My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

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She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

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

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

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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.

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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

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The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.

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The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

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The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

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In the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

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What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel So am I.'- Rudy

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Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

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Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

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

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People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

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

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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

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

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And the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

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

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

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