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Down Quotes by Markus Zusak
- They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's…
- Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in…
- I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I…
- After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next…
- She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
- Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what…
- Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down,…
- A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring…
- For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
- I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
- You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him…
- The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color.…
- When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a…
- Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers…
- It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
- My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
- My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and…
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