Markus Zusak

“Words are life”

— Markus Zusak

She kept watching the words.

— Markus Zusak

Even death has a heart.

— Markus Zusak

“Her nerves licked her palms.”

— Markus Zusak

I'm just another stupid human.

— Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

— Markus Zusak

“His hair is like feathers.”

— Markus Zusak

“Sergeant Stephan Schneider”

— Markus Zusak

“One eye open. One still in a dream”

— Markus Zusak

“Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?”

— Markus Zusak

“The pain of WATCHING them! What about their pain?”

— Markus Zusak

The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.

— Markus Zusak

“No quiere amarme pero tampoco quiere perderme.”

— Markus Zusak

“A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

“It takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

— Markus Zusak

“The sun stirs the earth. Around and around, it stirs us like stew.”

— Markus Zusak

“The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.”

— Markus Zusak

“Nije to neka velika stvar, ali valjda je stvarno istina – velike stvari tek su male stvari koje ljudi zamjećuju.”

— Markus Zusak

“I am all bluster- I am not violent. I am not malicious- I am a result.”

— Markus Zusak

“What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.”

— Markus Zusak

“Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.”

— Markus Zusak

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

— Markus Zusak

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

— Markus Zusak

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was…

— Markus Zusak

“A ako tip poput tebe može zasukati rukave i učiniti ono što si ti učinio za sve te ljude, možda može svatko.…

— Markus Zusak

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always…

— Markus Zusak

“Sometimes, I imagined how everything appeared above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was…

— Markus Zusak

“Sometimes I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was…

— Markus Zusak

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and…

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

“We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube…

— Markus Zusak

When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the…

— Markus Zusak

“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do…

— Markus Zusak

“He was tall in the bed and I could see the silver through his eyelids. His soul sat up. It met me.…

— Markus Zusak

“It’s probably fair to say that in all the years of Hitler’s reign, no person was able to serve the Führer as…

— Markus Zusak

Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted…

— Markus Zusak

“He lay with yellow hair and closed eyes, and the book thief ran toward him and fell down. She dropped the black…

— Markus Zusak

“As winter set in, she was no longer a victim of Sister Maria’s frustrations, preferring to watch as others were marched out…

— Markus Zusak

After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further…

— Markus Zusak