All Markus Zusak Quotes
- Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them. Corners
- When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. Book
- She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did. Any
- Beautiful women are the torment of my existence. Beautiful
- If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first. Better
- Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and… Amper
- The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. Book
- Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it. Earning
- Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She… Accordion
- It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. Basement
- The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it,… Big
- His eyes were cold and brown — like coffee stains… Brown
- Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times. All
- It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. Abruptly
- It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. Amazes
- It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this. Feel
- We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want… Beautiful
- When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for… Arm
- The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. Brutality
- And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself -… Accordion
- An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis. Attribute
- The happening that happened was that I met this girl ... Girl
- So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my… End
- Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness. Aloneness
- I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that… All