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Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children


Markus Zusak

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Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
MARKUS ZUSAK He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has...
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Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
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An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity
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BESSIE ANDERSON STANLEY In my loneliness…I found you
In my darkness... I found you
In my insanity…. I found yo...
AVIJEET DAS Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY I am that I am
a Goddess, a God
entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations
RAMON RAVENSWOOD Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I am leaving.
Where?
Not where but whom.
Whom?
You.
VIKRMN Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON We don’t find God
in temples and cathedrals.
We don’t find Him
by standing on a <...
KAMAND KOJOURI THE WEATHER OF LOVE


Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
SUZY KASSEM I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Master's Sacred Knowledge.

Love is the treasure you should seek!

The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS Keep an eye out for her,
she tends to disappear
intermittently, leaving no
note for o...
AKASH MANDAL The money is mine, not yours,” Reginald reminded her. “You ungrateful wretch. I found you an ear...
PATRICIA GRASSO Love is just Love.
It's self sustainable.
Togetherness however needs trust,
loyalty ...
DRISHTI BABLANI I hate the moments between
meeting someone and leaving
someone

there’s this...
R.H. SIN Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it wai...
FULTON J. SHEEN Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Not a believer in the mosque am I,
Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.
I am not the pur...
BULLEH SHAH Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But n...
MARY E. PEARSON Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspic...
AMBROSE BIERCE Saying of the Prophet.
Lies, promises, trust
He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise ...
IDRIES SHAH In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The grea...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Painful memories, they can mend,
love’s powerful, but it can rend,
through the treachero...
A. LEE BROCK Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.”
“I have one,”...
JULIA QUINN To me, the most important rules in life are:
1. Never trust people you love.
2. Never trus...
GIRL234 I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE HOW TO CHOOSE A GREAT LEADER

Choose a leader who will invest in
Building bridges, n...
SUZY KASSEM And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:

W...
FANNIE FLAGG In the ebb and flow of my life,
in years gone by, in moments now,
in currents, undertows...
ROBERT TRABOLD The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.

The suspended body; a harbinger of go...
CHIRAG TULSIANI Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind
CALEB WARTA Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.
On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to kno...
ROBERT JORDAN Often in relationships we have to move
the next mile, leaving behind the experiences
of th...
WORDIONS Too often children are treated as tradeable commodities in relationships"

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RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the ...
BHAGAVAD GITA Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.
LAINI TAYLOR A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE ...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we ke...
MARK BATTERSON there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI From birth to death and further on

As we were born and introduced into this world,
W...
VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken gl...
MUNIA KHAN Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD He was footprints in the snow.

Not all loves are meant to last.
Some are meant to gr...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA I've lost myself..."
"...since I found us."
"My God's upset,renounced my faith..."
"....
DR. KARAN M PAI My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the mi...
ALBERT CAMUS You see her
and ascend into love.
You become enchanted,
a found madman.
In yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY
Manners
Morals
Respect
Trust
Patience
Class
HYACIL HAN It's not easy, but do it anyway

It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL It's not easy, but do it anyway

It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD There is a desire within each of us,
in the deep center of ourselves
that we call our hea...
GERALD G. MAY I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust...
RON W. RATHBUN I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and sing...
KAMAND KOJOURI Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and...
LANGDON SMITH Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt...
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And you can ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Love me for what I am
Not what I try to be.
Love me for what I am.
I am
A person...
WILLIAM FINN He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'

There was a long silence as An...
D.J. STUTLEY Blue Planet Phenomenon.

she’s from the pink planet called Constellation
he’s f...
R.M. ROMARNEY Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY What avails love when life is so ephemeral?
What avaiIs a mortal’s love for the immortal?
<...
ALLAMA IQBAL More than being human, we need peace and love.

More than being strong and capable, we nee...
NURUDEEN USHAWU I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA Walk straight ahead
Listen to no one
Trust not in the walls or doorways
For they will...
RENéE PAULE Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move a...
PAULO COELHO By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.
In following him I follow but myself;
Heaven is my ju...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

LEWIS CARROLL This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk...
OMAR KHAYYáM We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS you're not in love
you're in pain
and there's nothing
romantic or loving
about ...
R.H. SIN It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom y...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hou...
SUZY KASSEM WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
The funny thing is that okayness...
MARKUS ZUSAK it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.

It took
losing him AMANDA LOVELACE I trust the red sun setting,

the leafless November trees.

On Monday morning I...
ELLEN WITTLINGER If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have no...
EZRA POUND Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN No! Wait! I've got a better idea..."

"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, ...
HOWARD TAYLER Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, u...
ANNE SEXTON Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.
LISA SCHROEDER

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MARKUS ZUSAK How does it feel, anyway?"
How does what feel?"
When you take one of those books?"
At...
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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.
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MARKUS ZUSAK She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, sof...
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.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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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 did.
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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