Top 500 Markus Zusak Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak

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2. “One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”

— Markus Zusak

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3. “My heart is so tired.”

— Markus Zusak

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4. “I’m just another stupid human.”

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5. “She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

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6. “I am haunted by humans.”

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7. “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

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8. “The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”

— Markus Zusak

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9. “I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

— Markus Zusak

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10. “Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.”

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11. “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”

— Markus Zusak

12. “I just want to write someone’s favorite book.”

— Markus Zusak

13. “Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.”

— Markus Zusak

14. “She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what’s it to live.”

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15. “I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

— Markus Zusak

16. “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

17. “First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”

— Markus Zusak

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18. “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”

— Markus Zusak

19. “I’d rather chase the sun than wait for it.”

— Markus Zusak

20. “I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”

— Markus Zusak

21. “Death waits for no man – and if he does, he doesn’t usually wait for very long.”

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22. “Even death has a heart.”

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23. “There were stars. They burned my eyes.”

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24. “It’s not the place, I think. It’s the people. We’d have all been the same anywhere else.”

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25. “Believe it or not – it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

— Markus Zusak

26. “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

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27. “I’m not the messenger at all. I’m the message.”

— Markus Zusak

28. “When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

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29. “It’s about glowing lights and small things that are big.”

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30. “You want to know what I truly look like? I’ll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

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31. “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.”

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32. “But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.”

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33. “You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.”

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34. “It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

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35. “The thrill of being ignored!”

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36. “Big things are often just little things that people notice.”

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37. “The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.”

— Markus Zusak

38. “There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.”

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41. “How about a kiss, Saumensch?”

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42. “One wild card was yet to be played.”

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43. “I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”

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44. “She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.”

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45. “Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.”

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46. “And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”

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47. “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

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48. “The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.”

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49. “The silence was always the greates temptation.”

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50. “It’s not a big thing, but I guess it’s true – big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

— Markus Zusak