Markus Zusak Quotes - Page 6

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• Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.

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  Hate, Believe, Love Hate

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• At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

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  Firsts, Felt

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• His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

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  Light, Soul, Want

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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• When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.

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  Wife, Slippers, Noise

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.460, RH Childrens Books

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• The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

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  Limping

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.499, RH Childrens Books

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• She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

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  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Knows

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.512, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.

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  Soul, Alive, Arms

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• How does it feel, anyway?" How does what feel?" When you take one of those books?" At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. "Well?" he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.

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  Book, Boys, Feel Good

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• Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

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  Book, Mountain Ranges, Kneeling

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.13, RH Childrens Books

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• It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

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  Night, Hands, Perfect

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Random House

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• You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

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  Book, Great Book, Greatest Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Random House

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• It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.

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  Thinking, People

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• 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 few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.

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  Believe, Soul, Vision

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.350, RH Childrens Books

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• The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

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  Book, Careers, Thieves

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• Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

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  Happiness, Stealing, Tricks

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.372, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

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  Sex, Wall, Voice

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

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  Jew

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.352, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

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  Running, Winning, Years

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• At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.

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  Black And White, Feet, Pages

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

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  Sound, Hammers, Earth

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.263, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

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  Want, Made, Howl

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• An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

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  Girl, Stupid, Years

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.118, RH Childrens Books

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• It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

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  Easier, Take Time, Stills

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• She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

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  Life, Death, Together

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.406, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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