Markus Zusak Quotes (214 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Variant: I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.
Source: The Book Thief

“My heart is so tired”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“A small fact:
You are going to die…. does this worry you?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
Source: The Book Thief

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

Markus Zusak

Variant: Big things are often just little things that people notice.
Source: I Am the Messenger

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

Markus Zusak

Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger

“I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“As always, one of her books was next to her.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“… one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“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.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
Source: The Book Thief

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you."
-Liesel”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“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.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief