Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window.
Markus Zusak
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Here's a funny question: What is your favorite word? Think about it—maybe it... VERA NAZARIAN Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk... CARLTON MELLICK III Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his sha... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create ... CEELO GREEN When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your s... JACINTA MPALYENKANA When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your s... JACINTA MPALYENKANA When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spen... OLIVER NEUBERT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Days like this, like your day today. maybe the rain on the window trying to get through ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI ... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a gol... JOE MCKINNEY What's the deal? Why can't he look into my eyes when I have words of appreciation lined u... TANYA GAMBHIR Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease... LAUREN OLIVER I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself. Maybe th... L.J. SMITH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages.... MARKUS ZUSAK Are you there? I call for you. I've been calling your name, Searching every place in my m... TANZY SAYADI It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Start by pulling him out of the fire and hoping that he will forget the smell. He was supp... CAITLYN SIEHL She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot... MITCH ALBOM Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to... CORNELL WOOLRICH Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Tikkun olam.” Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. A... DAVID LEVITHAN When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, CHARLES KINGSLEY One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demo... CRISS ANGEL No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowle... KAHLIL GIBRAN The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are,we then begin to build our own World eve... RALPH WALDO TRINE You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip let it go say ”I give up” o... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in ... ANN BRASHARES When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much ... MILTON FRIEDMAN Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your... JOSEPH CAMPBELL It is not about proving anything to the world. It is all about proving your capabilities to yo... MANOJ ARORA Wake up naked drinking coffee Making plans to change the world While the world is changing... DAVE MATTHEWS But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it... MARGARET ATWOOD My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities." "Perhaps... CATHY MAXWELL They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- WILLIAM STAFFORD Maybe you are Saul's quarter-life crisis, but so what? Maybe he's yours. Or maybe you two are the lu... EMILY HENRY That old man over there Is selling trinkets made of stones That old woman the entire world... AVIJEET DAS MOM Wholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devot... GIORGE LEEDY Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shap... VERA NAZARIAN The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be... JENNIFER GILMORE You may compare yourself to others, and feel insecure about your own worthiness. Don’t ... JENNIFER SODINI To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hop... ELLEN BASS The world is broken he said, how will you fix it? I don't think anyone can fix it but we... NIKKI ROWE nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of... JOHN BURROUGHS What we are proposing,' Alicia said, 'is that the laws of physics are such that causality violation ... DEXTER PALMER Look behind you now. Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful s... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the wei... MARY OLIVER We each have our own language. Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sens... HOLLY SMALE Jalal shook his head and moved toward Khalid. "She is. Please give her a chance to explain." "L... RENEE AHDIEH We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—an... DAVID EAGLEMAN The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it i... HARUKI MURAKAMI The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold ... DEB CALETTI My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further o... MARK LAWRENCE When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his win... KAHLIL GIBRAN The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Wh... VERA NAZARIAN to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is morta... MARY OLIVER Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem Matthew 21 12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.' The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph... WILLIAM GOLDING Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until... NAOMI JACKSON Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything ... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. T... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON On building homes for fallen angels: When I was small - I sought a home, a place to ... WILL ADVISE Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its ... KAHLIL GIBRAN you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highw... WARSAN SHIRE A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and s... TOBA BETA Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't b... MIKE NORTON Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love.... BRENNAN MANNING By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own h... TOBA BETA This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfe... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most often we keep looking for external things to make us feel better. It maybe a new gadget, clothi... AVIJEET DAS Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour. IDRIES SHAH Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and ... MARY SCHMICH Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true, I need this, I need my arrow to find yo... HUBERT MARTIN What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. ... LAUREN OLIVER Every time you post something online, you have a choice. You can either make it something that ... ZOE SUGG You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep... LOUIS TOMLINSON I think, as probably many of you will know from the experience of family loss, perhaps in your own l... PRINCE CHARLES At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy... NEIL GAIMAN FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, JOSé N. HARRIS Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ... JAMES CAMERON In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies in... MARY OLIVER I open my eyes. I want to know: what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in t... KAMAND KOJOURI Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting wel... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a chil... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Don't you think...doesn't it seem sometimes like life is like a plane?...And we're all piloos, you k... GAYLE FRIESEN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said. 'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar... FLANN O'BRIEN Who are you really, wanderer?" and the answer you have to give, no matter how dark and cold th... WILLIAM STRAFFORD Even an Astral Adventure needs a little sensuality. "Perhaps you can show me how tastefully dec... SCOT FIN
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(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... MARKUS ZUSAK