...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns’ bedroom), pull the accordion” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Who was there to soothe him as life’s rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. "Don't punish… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. — Markus Zusak Copy Share
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share
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.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
“When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
“«¿Por qué no puede oírlo el resto del mundo? —me pregunto. En pocos segundos me lo pregunto muchas veces—. Porque no le importa —me… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest? — Markus Zusak Copy Share
I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
“Može li netko ukrasti sreću? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?” — Markus Zusak Copy Share
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart… — Markus Zusak Copy Share
