Markus Zusak

“All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on…

— Markus Zusak

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

— Markus Zusak

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

— Markus Zusak

“Herr Vogel from Heide Strasse. “Made all his money from his father. He throws it away on women”

— Markus Zusak

“Ljudi su ponekad prelijepi. Ne zbog izgleda. Ne zbog onoga što govore. Nego zbog onoga što jesu.”

— Markus Zusak

“So many colors. They keep triggering inside me. They harstinker my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on…

— Markus Zusak

She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt…

— Markus Zusak

“It’s a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

— Markus Zusak

“I tell me: Let these words be footsteps, because I have a long way to travel. Let the words walk the dirty…

— Markus Zusak

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,…

— Markus Zusak

“It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I…

— Markus Zusak

“That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend--what humans are capable of.”

— Markus Zusak

“When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.”

— Markus Zusak

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words.…

— Markus Zusak

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

“The tears grappled with her face. Rudy, please, wake up, Goddamn it, wale up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on,…

— Markus Zusak

“How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch ?" -- Rudy Steiner”

— Markus Zusak

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

— Markus Zusak

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

— Markus Zusak

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and…

— Markus Zusak

A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.…

— Markus Zusak

“Yet each day, he managed to unravel and straighten himself, disgusted and thankful. Wrecked, but somehow not torn into pieces.”

— Markus Zusak

He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her…

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

— Markus Zusak