*** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
Markus Zusak
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*** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist ...
MARKUS ZUSAK How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch?" -- Rudy Steiner
MARKUS ZUSAK How about a kiss, Saumensch?"
He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments l...
MARKUS ZUSAK You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd p...
MARKUS ZUSAK WOW DID I JUST SEE LIL B?
THE MYTH ?? THE AMERICAN HERO AND LEGEND? WORLD WIDE LEGEND! I ...
BRANDON MCCARTNEY He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?"
"He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness s...
CASSANDRA CLARE I visit him a few times downtown
while he paints.
We talk about how he's going to Spain SAMANTHA SCHUTZ Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK He rambled.
Oh boy, did he ramble.
He rambled in a way that was nothing but
a bunch o...
ALYSON NOEL The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lo...
MARKUS ZUSAK We're going to die. We're going to die..."
"We're not going to die," he barks. "Do YOU want to ...
JULIE REECE Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
What did he die...
OSCAR WILDE I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
"Yes, he did."
"When did he say ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th...
SHAUN TAN What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that y...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He did not deserve to die, and his death absolutely proves that life is random
and fucked-up an...
MATTHEW QUICK On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet s...
MARKUS ZUSAK He bumped into a pay phone and said, 'Excuse me, miss,' on our way in," said Julian.
"It'...
CASSANDRA CLARE He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK A WISH
Sometimes I wish
that he will live
and I will see him.
But m...
COCO J. GINGER At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:
THE END OF THE WORLD ORSON SCOTT CARD She said he looked hot in uniform.
He said she looked hot without clothes.
S...
ANGELA VERDENIUS And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, dam...
MARY BALOGH There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
'Did he bite you?' said Father.
'No,' said Fra...
RUSSELL HOBAN How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would ...
MARKUS ZUSAK For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have never seen a
man break the way he did. And he broke. Set half the damn Covenant on fire....
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal."
J.R. WARD For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die
he does not die a death of sham...
OSCAR WILDE What else did he say?”
She screwed up her face. “Oh, some weird thing about telling you tha...
RACHEL HAWKINS Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought ...
TIM BURTON What does Éloa mean?”
He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
SARAH MACLEAN In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a st...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You sound worked up. Really worked up. No, that's not it. You sound agitated...flustered...aroused."...
BECCA FITZPATRICK He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about wa...
J.K. ROWLING Who really knows, and who can swear,
How creation came, when or where!
Even gods came afte...
RIG VEDA Angel clicked on a few more pictures on the screen, and Alex made small talk about the place. Then h...
ELIZABETH REYES This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, "Let go of Frosty's leash. You're choking the life out of h...
GENA SHOWALTER Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Percy wakes me (fourteen)
Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
MARY OLIVER He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never change...
MARTHA MEDEIROS Two of us in this room, Ace, two keycards," he said and my eyes went to him. When they did, he jerke...
KRISTEN ASHLEY For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.
But then he forgot all those pr...
TERRY MCMILLAN What’s it like to live forever?
Nicholas almost dropped the glass he had been holding. “Wha...
GRACE WILLOWS Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up?...
LISA KLEYPAS She: Why was there a distance between you and me?
He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis...
AVIJEET DAS She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't,...
EDGAR A. GUEST it's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
DAVID LEVITHAN Die slowly
He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,...
PABLO NERUDA Some toy you give,” he said, gritty-voiced, and now the two tears in the corners of his eyes began...
V.C. ANDREWS A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
MARKUS ZUSAK About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the...
LAURA WHITCOMB And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after t...
LAUREN DESTEFANO LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)
He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
MARKUS ZUSAK A zealous locksmith died of late,
And did arrive at heaven gate,
He stood without and would ...
WILLIAM CAMDEN everyone always says that Lord Findleshanks is really a woman. Did you ever look at him closely? He ...
ELOISA JAMES This did not seem to reassure Nico.
“I don’t like being in the dark,” he muttered.<...
RICK RIORDAN What's the deal? Why can't he look
into my eyes when I have words
of appreciation lined u...
TANYA GAMBHIR Josh, you saw him," Tally says, "What did he look like? Did he look nice?"
"He looked lik...
SEVENTHSWAN I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe.
...
TESSA DARE He then kissed her.
It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked...
EVA IBBOTSON Drop something?" he asked, trying to suppress a smile but failing miserably at the act.
I nodde...
MARKELLE GRABO About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay
*
Five, he really hates Clay.
*
Nine, he really...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For ins...
STEPHEN COSGROVE We never knew such a dark and horrible place existed in
America until Timothy McVeigh sent us th...
BETH WILKINSON You deserve someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it.
...
TERRY A O'NEAL [Ranger] "How's your mental health?" he asked. "I heard about Soder."
[Stephanie] "I'm rattled....
JANET EVANOVICH Ravel said. “And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of...
DEREK LANDY And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
He must die a little death each morning...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldie...
LUKE TAYLOR Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to...
LAO TZU Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
'Will you be all rig...
PHILIP K. DICK When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
he is very careful about how much ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Relax Mara,” he said softly, his eyes going super warm. “I don’t bite.”
I wished ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS It Couldn't Be Done
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle repli...
EDGAR A. GUEST I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Everyone says he can't run the bases, and he can't play left field, ... Obviously he's not the playe...
PETER MAGOWAN Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.
Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.
...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hey," Trenton said, breathless and sweaty.
He pulled a few yellow strands of fake hair fr...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That...
RICHELLE MEAD It’s been a long time,” he murmured, prowling towards her, drawing to a halt just out of reachin...
AMY ANDREWS How to find a good spouse?
-the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.
CHARLES T. MUNGER so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether h...
VEDAS It meant he was sure to see Linh Cinder again.
Maybe he could learn more about her then.
M...
MARISSA MEYER Do you think I'm pretty?”
He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I...
RICHELLE MEAD
More Markus Zusak
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they ...
MARKUS ZUSAK You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I rec...
MARKUS ZUSAK How does it feel, anyway?"
How does what feel?"
When you take one of those books?"
At...
MARKUS ZUSAK We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something...
MARKUS ZUSAK I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
MARKUS ZUSAK Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.
MARKUS ZUSAK A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they...
MARKUS ZUSAK Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
MARKUS ZUSAK He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He m...
MARKUS ZUSAK Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
MARKUS ZUSAK We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at al...
MARKUS ZUSAK Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile a...
MARKUS ZUSAK I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"W...
MARKUS ZUSAK Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
MARKUS ZUSAK She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren�...
MARKUS ZUSAK She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, sof...
MARKUS ZUSAK A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often...
MARKUS ZUSAK The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
MARKUS ZUSAK She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.
MARKUS ZUSAK He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the bo...
MARKUS ZUSAK I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while ot...
MARKUS ZUSAK The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will...
MARKUS ZUSAK Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growi...
MARKUS ZUSAK It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he ha...
MARKUS ZUSAK I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about ...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
MARKUS ZUSAK ***A SMALL THEORY***
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, bu...
MARKUS ZUSAK The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of h...
MARKUS ZUSAK A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A rea...
MARKUS ZUSAK My mouth opened.
It happened.
Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. MARKUS ZUSAK It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on...
MARKUS ZUSAK Awkward.
That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
MARKUS ZUSAK I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn...
MARKUS ZUSAK The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids ha...
MARKUS ZUSAK The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...
MARKUS ZUSAK A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particu...
MARKUS ZUSAK It’s a small story really, about, among other things:
* A girl
* Some words
MARKUS ZUSAK A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am haunted by humans.
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you'...
MARKUS ZUSAK Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
MARKUS ZUSAK One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
MARKUS ZUSAK She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.
MARKUS ZUSAK My heart is so tired
MARKUS ZUSAK The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]...
MARKUS ZUSAK His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and...
MARKUS ZUSAK How about a kiss, Saumensch?"
He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments l...
MARKUS ZUSAK If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laug...
MARKUS ZUSAK Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometim...
MARKUS ZUSAK A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
MARKUS ZUSAK Even death has a heart.
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her a...
MARKUS ZUSAK It kills me sometimes, how people die.
MARKUS ZUSAK Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
MARKUS ZUSAK Summer came.
For the book thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the colo...
MARKUS ZUSAK I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? I...
MARKUS ZUSAK As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sp...
MARKUS ZUSAK I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love mo...
MARKUS ZUSAK She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find t...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or...
MARKUS ZUSAK It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowm...
MARKUS ZUSAK ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: MARKUS ZUSAK أحياناً تقوم بقراءة كتاب من روعته تريد اصطحابه معك لعد�...
MARKUS ZUSAK She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
MARKUS ZUSAK If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
MARKUS ZUSAK And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' insid...
MARKUS ZUSAK Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
MARKUS ZUSAK It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
MARKUS ZUSAK They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the...
MARKUS ZUSAK It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend mo...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the...
MARKUS ZUSAK All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of t...
MARKUS ZUSAK I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I tho...
MARKUS ZUSAK The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
MARKUS ZUSAK I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in...
MARKUS ZUSAK Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his ther...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
MARKUS ZUSAK Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn...
MARKUS ZUSAK We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
MARKUS ZUSAK When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
MARKUS ZUSAK Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever....
MARKUS ZUSAK My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the youn...
MARKUS ZUSAK What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your finge...
MARKUS ZUSAK My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
MARKUS ZUSAK Big things are often just little things that people notice.
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
MARKUS ZUSAK She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun. MARKUS ZUSAK It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk aroun...
MARKUS ZUSAK That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm just another stupid human.
MARKUS ZUSAK If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live...
MARKUS ZUSAK People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things...
MARKUS ZUSAK Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
MARKUS ZUSAK I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.
MARKUS ZUSAK My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.
MARKUS ZUSAK You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
MARKUS ZUSAK Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.
MARKUS ZUSAK It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply est...
MARKUS ZUSAK It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were de...
MARKUS ZUSAK I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on...
MARKUS ZUSAK ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
MARKUS ZUSAK I could smell something. Fear.
I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and...
MARKUS ZUSAK And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through m...
MARKUS ZUSAK Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
MARKUS ZUSAK The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguel...
MARKUS ZUSAK At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.
MARKUS ZUSAK I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been...
MARKUS ZUSAK You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
MARKUS ZUSAK They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appea...
MARKUS ZUSAK ...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, an...
MARKUS ZUSAK There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ...
MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
MARKUS ZUSAK It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat w...
MARKUS ZUSAK Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma...
MARKUS ZUSAK We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is...
MARKUS ZUSAK And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile...
MARKUS ZUSAK When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
MARKUS ZUSAK Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the ba...
MARKUS ZUSAK Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the n...
MARKUS ZUSAK She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-s...
MARKUS ZUSAK ***A KEY WORD***
Imagined
MARKUS ZUSAK ... the city around us seemed colder than ever again, and I realised that even if it really had sens...
MARKUS ZUSAK The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s...
MARKUS ZUSAK Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
MARKUS ZUSAK Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.
MARKUS ZUSAK You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd p...
MARKUS ZUSAK An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
MARKUS ZUSAK My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence dr...
MARKUS ZUSAK It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but...
MARKUS ZUSAK Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
MARKUS ZUSAK I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's ...
MARKUS ZUSAK How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
MARKUS ZUSAK For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this:
She became thirteen...
MARKUS ZUSAK He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himsel...
MARKUS ZUSAK They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one...
MARKUS ZUSAK I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside ...
MARKUS ZUSAK When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
MARKUS ZUSAK It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.
MARKUS ZUSAK The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.
MARKUS ZUSAK I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's u...
MARKUS ZUSAK In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory hum...
MARKUS ZUSAK You can't eat books, sweetheart.
MARKUS ZUSAK One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.
MARKUS ZUSAK A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that ra...
MARKUS ZUSAK When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w...
MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day...
MARKUS ZUSAK See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re...
MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik...
MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.
MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no...
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