Markus Zusak quotes - page 8

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. (Markus Zusak)
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole...
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.
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It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.
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You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.
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Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive. (Markus Zusak)
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
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I'm just another stupid human.
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I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
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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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She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.
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... it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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July 24, 6:03 A. M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. (Markus Zusak)
Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
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I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.
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If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
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