--- title: "9 Minutes Quotes By Markus Zusak" description: "9 Minutes quotes by Markus Zusak. Plus more from Markus Zusak and more Minutes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/markus-zusak-165_handed_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2444793.png" --- > [“For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-out-the-story/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/markus-zusak-165_handed_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2444793.png) > [She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/she-let-herself-love-me-for-three-minutes-can-three-minutes-last/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b2/markus-zusak-165_answers_she-let-herself-love-me-for-three-minute_2087909.png) > [I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/i-m-asking-you-i-m-begging-you-could-you-please-shut-your-mouth-for/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/markus-zusak-165_asking_i-m-asking-you-i-m-begging-you-could-you_2778390.png) > [Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/each-night-liesel-would-step-outside-wipe-the-door-and-watch-the-sky/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ac/markus-zusak-165_cold_each-night-liesel-would-step-outside-wip_2632839.png) > [20 minutes later: a girl on Himmel Street. She looks up. She speaks in whisper. ‘The sky is soft today, Max. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/20-minutes-later-a-girl-on-himmel-street-she-looks-up-she-speaks-in/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/markus-zusak-165_arms_20-minutes-later-a-girl-on-himmel-street_479895.png) > [Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/summer-came-for-the-book-thief-everything-was-going-nicely-for-me-the/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cf/markus-zusak-165_arms_summer-came-for-the-book-thief-everythin_1633977.jpg) > [After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/after-another-ten-minutes-the-gates-of-thievery-would-open-just-a/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93b/markus-zusak-165_behinds_after-another-ten-minutes-the-gates-of-t_1481859.png) > [For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-out-the-story-the-youngest/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/markus-zusak-165_basements_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2942652.png) > [She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/she-leaned-down-and-looked-at-his-lifeless-face-and-leisel-kissed-her/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/692/markus-zusak-165_able_she-leaned-down-and-looked-at-his-lifele_870233.png) ## Other authors on Minutes ## More by Markus Zusak > [Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/liesel-observed-the-strangeness-of-her-foster-father-s-eyes-they-were/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/i-think-that-as-a-writer-your-responsibility-is-to-search-for-and/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/for-two-days-i-went-about-my-business-i-travelled-the-globe-as-always/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/it-is-early-early-morning-it-s-that-time-when-it-s-still-dark-but-you/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [“I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/i-m-twenty-years-old-and-look-at-me-there-isn-t-a-thing-i-want-to-do/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/you-should-give-it-to-max-liesel-see-if-you-can-leave-it-on-the/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [“When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/when-a-woman-with-an-iron-fist-tells-you-to-get-out-there-and-clean/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/is-there-cowardice-with-the-acknowledgement-of-fear/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/in-years-to-come-he-would-be-a-giver-of-bread-not-a-stealer-proof/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [“«¿Por qué no puede oírlo el resto del mundo? —me pregunto. En pocos segundos me lo pregunto muchas veces—. Porque no le importa —me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/por-qu-no-puede-o-rlo-el-resto-del-mundo-me-pregunto-en-pocos/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/could-she-smell-my-breath-could-she-hear-my-cursed-circular-heart/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/i-see-how-complicated-it-is-to-make-a-film-and-how-many-people-are/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [One wild card was yet to be played.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/one-wild-card-was-yet-to-be-played/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [“Može li netko ukrasti sreću? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/mo-e-li-netko-ukrasti-sre-u-ili-je-i-to-jo-jedan-unutarnji-paklenski/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/i-look-at-my-first-books-and-am-glad-they-weren-t-published-you-start/) [Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/minutes/markus-zusak/#itemlist", "name": "9 Minutes Quotes By Markus Zusak", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Markus Zusak" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-out-the-story/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/markus-zusak-165_handed_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2444793.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/markus-zusak-165_handed_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2444793.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/markus-zusak-165_handed_for-at-least-twenty-minutes-she-handed-o_2444793.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.” — Markus Zusak", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "She let herself love me for three minutes. 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