Markus Zusak Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .

  Markus Zusak

  Clouds, Blue, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.184, Random House

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

  Markus Zusak

  Reading, Book, Men

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

• 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 out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

• 20 minutes later: a girl on Himmel Street. She looks up. She speaks in whisper. 'The sky is soft today, Max. The clouds are so soft and sad, and...' She looks away and crosses her arms. She thinks of her papa going to war and grabs her jacket at each side of her body. 'And it's cold, Max. It's so cold.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, War, Thinking

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