That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more… — 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
It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“People observe the colours of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that day merges… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Once in while a man or a woman--no, they were not men and women; they were Jews--would find Liesel's face among the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“It’s much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I'll never forget the first day in Auschwitz, the first time in Mauthausen. At that second place, as time wore on, I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“***A LATE-NIGHT EXCERPT*** I realized much later that I actually visited 33 Himmel Street in that period of time. It must have… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will make… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like… — 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
