Quotes by Markus Zusak

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Writer · Australian · 1975

Australian writer (born 1975)

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“Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.”

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

— Markus Zusak

decide do-something waiting

“A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wonderi...”

— Markus Zusak

existing happening life waiting

“The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...”

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girl happening

“A final dirty joke.Another human punch line”

— Markus Zusak

insightful

“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”

— Markus Zusak

mortality

“Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert E...”

— Markus Zusak

albert-einstein answers end know

“When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.”

— Markus Zusak

city smog views window