Markus Zusak: Wording

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“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

“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

“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

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

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“She kept watching the words.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.
Source: The Book Thief

“At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”

Markus Zusak

Source: Underdog

“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
"Don't punish yourself," she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief