Life Quotes by Markus Zusak

“Words are life”

— Markus Zusak

Even death has a heart.

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“Words are life, Liesel.”

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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

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“When life robs you, sometimes, you have to rob it back.”

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I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

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Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

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“Living was living. The price was guilt and shame.”

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“Sometimes when life robs you, you have to rob it back.”

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Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

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“I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.”

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One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

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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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“walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns’ bedroom), pull the accordion”

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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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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

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“There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.”

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“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.”

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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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I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages…

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“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.…

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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are…

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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…

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A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out…

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I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like…

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“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that…

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See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy.…

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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It…

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What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the…

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“Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our…

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Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you…

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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows,…

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“Who was there to soothe him as life’s rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?”

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Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

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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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“He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of…

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I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday.…

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“All my life, I've been scared of men standing over me... It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever…

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“I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you…

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“A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn't forget that. He couldn't join a party that antagonized people in such…

— Markus Zusak