Markus Zusak: Human

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Source: The Book Thief

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

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

“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 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

“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

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I'm just another stupid human.”

Markus Zusak

Variant: No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.
Source: I Am the Messenger

“You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“So many humans.
So many colors.”

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

“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”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“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”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief