Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.


Oliver Markus Malloy

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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
When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar term...
MARKUS PERSSON
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
Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because...
MARKUS BARTH
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It i...
MARKUS BARTH
Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 It seems clear that those people who p...
MARKUS BARTH
Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the co...
MARKUS PERSSON
I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' w...
MARKUS PERSSON
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
I haven't had much contact with Mayer. I don't know what he has done wrong now or why he shouldn't c...
MARKUS GANDLER
I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.
MARKUS GANDLER
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
'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I...
MARKUS PERSSON
There are still some significant differences of opinion. But a century ago, pacifists were guilty of...
MARKUS FURRER
Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Face...
MARKUS PERSSON