People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Some people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in… — 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
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and… — 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
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to… — 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
I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile.… — 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
