Quotes by Markus Zusak

“Youll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. Thats when you know youre a writer when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and ...”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. Ther words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuh...”

“I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on ...”

“Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them q...”

“sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.”

“The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.”

“There are pieces of me on the ground.”

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

“I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.”

“For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.”

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”

“Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"At first, Liesel could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had s...”

“I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definite...”

“She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity of the groin.Well, as you might...”

“In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.”

“How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?”

“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”

“I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a ...”

“If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.”