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Famous Markus Zusak Quotes
“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”
“The conversation of bullets.”
“He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.”
“Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.”
“She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.”
“People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.”
“It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them”
“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
“Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.”
“If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”
“Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.”
“His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.”
“Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.”
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”
“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”
“The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.”
“An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.”
“The happening that happened was that I met this girl.”
“Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.”