Liesel meminger Quote by Markus Zusak

“Herschel was a Jew." "And he was my best friend." "He was his best friend." "And I murdered him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better than a…

— Anton Chekhov

“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. Imagine smiling…

— Markus Zusak

“That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a…

— Walter Mosley

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and…

— Markus Zusak

“The easy truth is as much a lie as any.”

— Sasha Martin

“There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter…

— Markus Zusak

“Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie…

— J.G. Ballard

“If only it were harder to lie, maybe she could stop. But lying was easy. Well, easier than telling the truth. And”

— Emily Bleeker

“In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and…

— Marcel Proust

“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“He’d found a hard truth less hard than an easy lie. There”

— Terry Pratchett