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“I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever.”
— Narrator / Death (voice), The Book Thief
Tagged: Death, Villains, Mortality
“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
“If your eyes could speak, what would they say?”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Eyes, Seeing emotions, Feelings
“...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 notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Song, Singing, lullaby
“That’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Bibliophile, Book Lover, Literary Love, Books
“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
“I am stupid. And kind. Which makes the biggest idiot in the world.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: self awareness
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, heart, wavering heart
“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 was saying goodbye and she didn’t even know it.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: goodbye
“She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Courage, strength
“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: humans, People, best and worst, ugly and beauty, both sides, same thing, neutral, Life
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Acceptance, Happiness, Gratitude, Experience
“My heart is so tired.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: heart, Sad, Exhausted, Ready To Give Up
“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
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Words, Literature, Writing
“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Unlovable, Alone, Sadness
“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Nomad, moving, Relocation, Constant Movement
“I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: travel
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ‘I’m okay’ we say. ‘I’m alright’. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer–it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Question, Answers
“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
“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
“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”
— Liesel, The Book Thief
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Happiness, Childhood, Love, Family Love
“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
“First the colors.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: first lines of books
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: Depression, smiling, pretending
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