Quotes by Markus Zusak

“There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there he hoped to read one day. Liesel....”

“Sometimes people are beautifulNot in looksNot in what they sayJust in what they are”

“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . .”

“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. ”

“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”

“You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just...”

“It feels nice to emerge from the lies.”

“a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow”

“In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly f...”

“Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?”

“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of ...”

“I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.”

“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”

“Papa! she whispered. I have no eyes!He patted the girls hair. Shed fallen into his trap. With a smile like that, Hans Hubermann said, you dont need eyes.”

“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds...”

“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes....from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”

“The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like Im falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.”

“Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.”

“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”

“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”