Quotes by Markus Zusak

“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails glid...”

“The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.”

“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”

“... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.”

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

“All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by ...”

“Jesus, Mary She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barel...”

“You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments an...”

“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”

“See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolf...”

“You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.”

“Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.”

“Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.”

“When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.”

“The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.”

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”

“Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.”

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

“We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it's beautiful in it...”