Markus Zusak Quotes

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• Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

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  Misery

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.84, RH Childrens Books

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• I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

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  Heart, Broke, Glad

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.537, Random House

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• Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

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  Reading, Book, Men

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.211, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

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  Book, Writing

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• Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

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  Running, Trying, Remember

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

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  Nice, Cheerful, Trust Me

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.16, RH Childrens Books

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• Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

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  Life, Inspiring, Philosophy

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.353, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

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  Fighter, Winner

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• It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

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  Bigs, Big Things, Small Things

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.221, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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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  Book, Writing, Mean

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.30, RH Childrens Books

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• The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

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  Brutality, Injury

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.193, Random House

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• The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.

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  Stars, Lying, Fall

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.831, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

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  Self, Obsession, Should

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.301, RH Childrens Books

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• It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

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  Running, Time, Thinking

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.214, Scholastic Inc.

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• I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

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  Tears, Faces, Streaming

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• I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

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  Life, Mean, Funeral

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• You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

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  Writing, Coming Back, Desks

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• There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

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  Overcoming, World, Forget You

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

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  Forever, Thirty, Standing

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.388, RH Childrens Books

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• 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.

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  Stories, Ugly, Brilliant

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.550, RH Childrens Books

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• My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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  Arms, Killing, Heavy

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• 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 escalate.

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  House Of Cards, Skills, Littles

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.109, RH Childrens Books

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• She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Angel, Laughing

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• Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.

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  Morning, Lying, Looks

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• 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 might come leaking out.

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  Heart, Scratches, Might

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Random House

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