“Like most misery, it started out with apparent happiness. - The Book Thief” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The Keys To Happiness 1.Finishing the Grave Digger's Handbook. 2.Escaping the ire of Santa Maria. 3.Recieving two books for Christmas.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for a summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly… — 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
“Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she sat against the wall, longing for the warm finger of paint to wander just once more down the side of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“«¿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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
