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Them 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…
- The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.
- I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
- It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those…
- He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though,…
- Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a…
- ...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.
- His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I…
- The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
- People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a…
- I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.-…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I…
- When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate…
- The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or…
- So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on…
- 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…
- She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them…
- As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . .…
- You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I…
- The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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