Death Quotes by Markus Zusak

“She had her whole death ahead of her”

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It kills me sometimes, how people die.

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Even death has a heart.

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Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death

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“He didn't deserve to die the way he did.”

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“You see? Even death has a heart.”

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“How many times did she have to say goodbye?”

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When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

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“The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.”

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“***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.”

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Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

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I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

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“When death tells a story yo really have to listen”

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

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“The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.”

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“In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.”

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“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

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“When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then…

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“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

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

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Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even…

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“It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I…

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“His soul sat up. It met me.Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and…

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“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate…

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“There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind…

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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them…

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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To…

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So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps,…

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“It’s probably fair to say that in all the years of Hitler’s reign, no person was able to serve the Führer as…

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“Death about Heil Hitlering p. 117-118. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a…

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“Death's Diary: 1942 - It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the…

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I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how…

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“On June 23, 1942, there was a group of French Jews in a German prison, on Polish soil. The first person I…

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“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

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

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When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid…

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“I don't want to hope for anything anymore. I don't want to pray that Max is alive and safe. Or Alex Steiner.…

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“It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I…

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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

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