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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.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“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.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Source: The Book Thief

“The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Competence was attractive.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Why me?' I ask God.
God says nothing.
I laugh and the stars watch.
It's good to be alive.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“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.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all. He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief