All Markus Zusak Quotes
- In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good,… Add
- When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an… Bathrobe
- After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.… Actually Forget
- 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 of this holds… Anymore
- When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in… Cab
- Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and… Answer
- She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it. Even Know
- It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the… Blocked
- A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I… Black
- She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath… Allow
- She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought,… Branches
- Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her… All
- Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like… Champagne
- A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless… Ability
- She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between… All
- ..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice. Buckets
- It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed. Big
- ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. Described
- I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be… Appears
- Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near… Book
- Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… Accumulated
- He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I… Calling
- I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to… Begin
- Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it. Change
- On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved… All