Markus Zusak quotes - page 7

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)
Everything was good. But it was awful, too. View quote
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. View quote
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When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like. View quote
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Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew. View quote
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So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. View quote
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. View quote
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Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. View quote
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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. (Markus Zusak)
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is. View quote
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Even enemies were an inch away from friendship. View quote
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me. View quote
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I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I've survived everything I've had to so far. I'm still standing here. View quote
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The conversation of bullets. View quote
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes. View quote
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At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of. View quote
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I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling. View quote
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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me. View quote
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The thrill of being ignored! (Markus Zusak)
The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams. View quote
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One wild card was yet to be played. View quote
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I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. View quote
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36) View quote
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