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Stories Quotes by Markus Zusak
- I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
- I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't…
- It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish…
- Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given…
- 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 wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
- Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
- What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these…
- Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of…
- You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.
- It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek…
- All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were…
- When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
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