Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
Markus Zusak
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You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY The Pretender
Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it...
T.S. ELIOT You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS They are not demons, not devils...
Worse than that.
They are people.
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI Are the gods not just?"
"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
C.S. LEWIS A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You l...
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are! EDWARD LEAR I have voices in my head
I'm a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I expe...
CHARISSE SPIERS YOU ARE JUST
You are not just for the right or left,
but for what is right over the ...
SUZY KASSEM You are not white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are not black,
but golden.
You a...
SUZY KASSEM There are people who break you down by just being them
They need not do anything
<...
MALEBO SEPHODI I admire strength but I fall in love with vulnerability.
I admire strong people. People who sta...
DRISHTI BABLANI The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.'
'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow...
NEIL GAIMAN You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front o...
GEORGE ORWELL THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN
You are not just white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are no...
SUZY KASSEM Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or somethin...
NEIL GAIMAN What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
He shook his head, the sm...
RICHELLE MEAD Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS O smile, going where? O upturned look:
new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;
alas, we ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everyth...
AKASH LAKHOTIA The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being tho...
LAURA RIDING JACKSON Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER tanith: have you called the police?
fergus: they, uh, they said theyd call by this afternoon. DEREK LANDY Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just a...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT what do you miss
do they miss you
when they're around
do they support your peace
R.H. SIN I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON DON'T SAY, DO
Do not say things
You think I want to hear.
Instead,
S...
SUZY KASSEM Girls, there are poets who learn from you
to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The truth is,
Everyone was taken before,
What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprison...
BRADLEY B. DALINA What if I say I'm not like the others
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
FOO FIGHTERS Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it...
RICHELLE MEAD What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?"
"Stories. And they give me hope.
NEIL GAIMAN There will be a billion people out there,
who will say you can't do it,
Just make sure th...
JITEN BHATT They say I am powerful,
They say I am eloquent,
They say I am wealthy.
But I am...
AYUSHMAN JAMWAL The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the ...
EMORY R. FRIE VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in thei...
ERIN HANSON I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do suc...
PATRICK JENNINGS Hearts don’t break.
It’s just another thing the poets say.
Hearts are not made
Of...
NICOLA YOON Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they j...
BOB MARLEY What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why is...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K This meal we just ate?" says Aunt Lydia. "In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten b...
GEORGE SAUNDERS What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Any other questions?"
"Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thi...
ALLY CONDIE In the end, when they are unsure of what is going on-
I always tell my daughters the same thin...
JOSé N. HARRIS Friends.
They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend.
Maybe there are just f...
STEPHEN KING I stare at your lips
and fall in love with the way
they form what you say.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Welcome in what?
In adult world??
I know it, people which are not sirious have a lot of mo...
DEYTH BANGER But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are...
JAMES BALDWIN People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often ...
SETH GODIN Words
are powerful
forces of nature.
they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—...
LANGSTON HUGHES Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Code...
ASHIM SHANKER He shook his head, just looking at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing," he said.
"Why are ...
JOHN GREEN I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
No amount of money,
Can stop me from loving you,
CHRIS COLFER Women Are Not Roses
Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
ANA CASTILLO Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 thi...
ALLAN RUFUS The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI one should not embrace religion because they are born into it,
one should embrace religion beca...
GABRIEL O GABRIELS Rory: "People are being serious."
Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course pe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?
Pe...
PAUL ARDEN What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Ma...
JEFF HUTCHINS I remember sitting in bed, as a child
looking up at the ceiling
I couldn’t sleep, of cou...
JUSTIN WETCH A lot we have in our head,
But things of heart are not yet dead,
They have done none, but ...
NUMEY a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done fo...
RUPI KAUR Andrei, did you like the opera?"
"Not particularly."
"Andrei, do you see what you're missi...
AYN RAND Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Do you think I'm pretty?”
He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I...
RICHELLE MEAD Already the people murmur that I am your enemy
because they say that in verse I give the world ...
JULIA DE BURGOS JACK AGüERO TRANSLATOR I've done lots of jobs. Right now, I'm a hair collector."
"That's good", said Ishvar tent...
ROHINTON MISTRY Not only have people stopped trying to be
attractive when they are out among other people, but...
MILAN KUNDERA In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB Did I Not Say To You
Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Dirge Without Music
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Passion in life…is life. It’s contagious. Get naked and roll around in it.
People wh...
LORII MYERS You're not gay, are you?
What?!
I mean you've never had a boyfriend. And you're not exactl...
KRISTIN WALKER Eleven reasons you want to become a robot:
1. Robots are logical and know their purpose....
A. MERC RUSTAD Readin' all those books makes me wonder whether
anyone ever dies natural."
" They...
RICHMAL CROMPTON When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons:
1. They are af...
SHANNON L. ALDER Are they beautiful?
The lines left from suffering,
Scars of emptiness.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap. A.A. MILNE Time waits for no man"
That is what they say.
That is why our time spent together, ANTHONY T HINCKS Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
PIET HEIN
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"W...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
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often...
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* A girl
* Some words
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MARKUS ZUSAK Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
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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?
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MARKUS ZUSAK How about a kiss, Saumensch?"
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MARKUS ZUSAK Summer came.
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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 was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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MARKUS ZUSAK I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
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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.
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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.
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MARKUS ZUSAK I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply est...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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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