Markus Zusak citations

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“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.”

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.”

“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole…”

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”

“The day was gray, the color of Europe.”

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

“So many humans.
So many colors.”

“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“… to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.”

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

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

“Competence was attractive.”

“… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”

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

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

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”