Markus Zusak quotes - page 5

There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye? (Markus Zusak)
She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
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She kept watching the words.
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The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.
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One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.
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The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
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The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.
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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. (Markus Zusak)
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
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Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.
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But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
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And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
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The day was gray, the color of Europe.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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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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Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.
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... to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. (Markus Zusak)
Competence was attractive.
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... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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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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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
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