Markus Zusak quotes - page 4

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. (Markus Zusak)
As always, one of her books was next to her.
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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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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
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It kills me sometimes, how people die.
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I am haunted by humans.
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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
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Even death has a heart.
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A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. (Markus Zusak)
... one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
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In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
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If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water. "How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
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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. (Markus Zusak)
All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
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When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
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There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
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They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.
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