Markus Zusak Quotes

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

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

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

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

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

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

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

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

“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”

“You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies.
I've seen millions of them.
I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember”

“There were stars. They burned my eyes.”

“… and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.”

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

“The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.”

“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”

“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”

“Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"What's that, Ritchie?"
His answer is simple.
"To want.”

“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”

“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”

“The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.”

“The injury of words.
Yes, the brutality of words.”

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.”

“My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.”

“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”

“Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.”

“How 'bout a kiss,?" -- Rudy Steiner”

“The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.”

“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.”

“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

“… 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.”

“I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes.
“You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.”
“Can you? Really?”
“I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”

“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.”

“THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.”

“Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”

“When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.”

“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”

“There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.”

“I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?"
You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.”

“The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.”

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.”

“I can promise you that the world is a factory.  The sun stirs it, the humans rule it.  And I remain.  I carry them away.- spoken by death”