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Markus Zusak
“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of des...
“A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTHI do not carry a sickle or scythe.I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.And I don't have...
“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”
“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the ...
“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the soun...
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. T...
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
“As always, one of her books was next to her.”
“She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wal...
“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
“A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrive...
“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simp...
“My arms are killing me.I didn't know words could be so heavy.”
“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
“How does it feel, anyway?"How does what feel?"When you take one of those books?"At that moment, she chose to keep still...
“Even death has a heart.”
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who yo...
“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forwar...
“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless a...
“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
“It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.”
