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Markus Zusak Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: human actions, Human Behavior, human beings, Determination, motivation, Moving Forward, Life
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: heart, Broken Hearts
“Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn’t matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: romance
“She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Courage, strength
“My heart is so tired.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: heart, Sad, Exhausted, Ready To Give Up
“If your eyes could speak, what would they say?”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Eyes, Seeing emotions, Feelings
“Believe it or not–it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: Love, Hatred, Failed Relationships
“Big things are often just little things that people notice.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: little things, Appreciation, Gratification
“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Nomad, moving, Relocation, Constant Movement
“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.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Readers, Writers, Novels, bookworms, Books
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter...”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Love, Feelings, learned in love
“I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: travel
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: smiling, pretending, Suffering
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: beauty, Confidence, Self-Love, Love
“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.”
— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Tagged: Touch, Deprivation, Lust
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: weird loving friendship, snowball, goofy, Silly, playful, lasting friendship, Beginnings, Beginning, Perfection, Perfect
“You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: Words Kill
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: Life, Encouragement, Thought
“My soul needs yours.”
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Tagged: Poetic, Soul, soulmate, Incomplete, couple, Relationship
“...and they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Destruction, evilness, viciousness, terror of beauty, beauty of destruction
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Love, True Love, Hate, boys
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