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Time Quotes by Markus Zusak

75 Time quotes by Markus Zusak

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Blue is bleeding through black as early morning arrives, showing how day pushes night away. The quotes show that saying something many times can make it stick in memory, and they describe moments of goodbye that feel heavy and linger. They also paint scenes of looking at the sky while feeling the world’s weight.

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“Saumensch, du dreckiges—it’s about time!”

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Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

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“Say something enough times and you never forget it.”

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People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

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“Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.”

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“How many times did she have to say goodbye?”

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“It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it.”

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The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

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Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards…

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Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

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The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?

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That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more…

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I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for…

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My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like…

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The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

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He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

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The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned.…

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“It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of…

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“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day…

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“For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a…

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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 even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that…

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She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her…

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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered…

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A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I…

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“I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually…

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“Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will make…

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“Death about Heil Hitlering p. 117-118. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a…

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“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…

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“I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a…

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People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day…

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“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the…

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“At this point, I couldn't help it. I walked around to see her better, and from the moment I witnessed her face…

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“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through…

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“The Standover Man. all my life, I've been scared of men standing over me. I suppose my first standover man was my…

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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take…

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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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“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?…

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I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live…

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“The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.”

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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

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One wild card was yet to be played.

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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…