Markus Zusak

Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.

— Markus Zusak

“There are pieces of me on the ground.”

— Markus Zusak

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of…

— Markus Zusak

“Liesel continued the examination. She moved around him and shrugged. "Not bad." Not bad! " I look better than just not bad."…

— Markus Zusak

“It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone…

— Markus Zusak

“She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.…

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“The violence interferes. It sticks its fingers into everything and tears it open. It all comes apart, and I loath myself for…

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“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all…

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Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there,…

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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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“Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually…

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“He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing…

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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if…

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...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

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“* * *THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION* * * Oh, yes, I definitely remember him The sky was murky and deep like quicksand.…

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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

— Markus Zusak

“The Keys To Happiness 1.Finishing the Grave Digger's Handbook. 2.Escaping the ire of Santa Maria. 3.Recieving two books for Christmas.”

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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…

— Markus Zusak

“A veces pienso que mi padre es un acordeón porque oigo sus notas cuando me mira y sonríe y respira.”

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Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just…

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All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those…

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It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who…

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“He would wink at the girl, and clumsily, she’d wink back.”

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Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I…

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“Feuer soll'n's brunzen fur einen Monat!' she heard her call out. Translation: 'They should all piss fire for a month!”

— Markus Zusak