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Markus Zusak, born on June 23, 1975, is an acclaimed Australian author known for his unique narrative style and profound thematic insights. His works have garnered widespread praise from readers and critics alike.

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Famous Markus Zusak Quotes

“Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.”

World Life Mistake Failure New World Life Lesson Try Again

Book:The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow.”

World Hurt Confidence Vow Treat Her Right

Book:Underdog

Source: Underdog

“I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.”

Thinking World Writing Jobs Responsibility Greater Violence This World Weakness Strength And Weakness

Author:Markus Zusak

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”

World Way Book Hands Black Crazy Rain Patience Clouds Thieves Defeated Trust Me Liesel

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

World Years Running Three Winning Locals Prize Three Years Ugliness Paychecks Robbing

Author:Markus Zusak

“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.”

World Looks Said Two Eye Stars Answers Months Sorrow Quiet Twenties Spokes Cracks Seconds Burned Curtains Max Outside World Reproach Two Months Astonishment Corridors Papa Twenty Two No Anger

Author:Markus Zusak

“I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death”

World Humans I Can Sun Promise Factories

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”

Knows World Moments Care Asks Answers Chosen

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

World Two Week Changing The World Two Weeks Fourteen

Author:Markus Zusak

“You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember”

World Humans Moments Care Remember Dies Millions This World Color Despite I Care Eclipse

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.”

World Children Turns Sky Streets Rain Hardest Turn Off Dripping Liesel Liesel Meminger Himmel Street

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of the world means nothing to me. The rest of the world can rot.' Am I like that too?' You? No way.' There's a slight gap in his words. 'And that's your problem. You care about everything.' He's right. I do.”

World Way Mean Problem Care Dad This Life Gaps Mum I Care Cameron

Book:Underdogs

Source: Underdogs

“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.”

World Persons Moments Forget Overcoming Cease Staring Remove Forget You

Book:Getting The Girl

Source: Getting The Girl

“She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)”

Men World Firsts Night Girl Arms Jew Teenage Teenage Girl Mattresses Sketchbooks

Author:Markus Zusak

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

World Humans Bigs Father Hero Dad Father Son

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.”

World Way Feels Hands Water Feet Color Shapes Hands And Feet

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.”

Men World Important Three Sides Strange Hair One Day Decided Opposites Details Mustache Small Man

Author:Markus Zusak

“Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.”

World Song Water Rich Deserve Rivers Stones Bottom Familiar Bridges Glorious Emeralds Liesel

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

People World Ends Worry Saws Wall Happenings Other Worlds

Book:Underdogs

Source: Underdogs

“My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.”

World Care Past Remember Lying Next Voice Cities Vision Boys Happened Sky Arms Offers Mouths Loud Desperate Thrown Throat Intensity

Author:Markus Zusak

“The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?”

World Looks I Can Hands Eye Faces Pages Spread Looking Down

Author:Markus Zusak

“I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.”

World Want Feels Firsts Stills I Can Moving Can Do My Own Views Fronts First Time Standing Survived I Can Do It Porch Front Porches

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

About the Author

Born: June 23, 1975
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 562

Books & Sources

The Book ThiefRelated source material

The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in EditionRelated source material

I Am the MessengerRelated source material

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the MessengerRelated source material

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Getting The GirlRelated source material

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