People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.


Markus Zusak

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*** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re...
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And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik...
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She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ...
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I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
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The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds...
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How many times did she have to say goodbye?
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Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
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Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
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*** 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
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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...
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He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
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She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
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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