Markus Zusak citations

“Un regard d'argent, empreint de bonté. D'argent en train de fondre. En le voyant, elle eut conscience de la valeur de Hans Huvermann”

“Je ne veux plus prier pour que M. soit sain et sauf. Ni A. S. Parce que le monde ne les mérite pas.”

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”

“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”

“It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

“Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

“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)”

“My heart is so tired”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

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