Markus Zusak Quotes

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

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)

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

"His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places."

"I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months.
There was no anger or reproach.
It was Papa who spoke.
How did it look?"
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

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

One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.

Rudy Steiner was scared of the book theif's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have longed for it so much. he must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.

I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.

She kept watching the words.

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

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