Top 500 Markus Zusak Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My arms are killing me. I didn’t know words could be so heavy.”

— Markus Zusak

52. “That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

— Markus Zusak

53. “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

— Markus Zusak

54. “It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

56. “The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”

— Markus Zusak

57. “She was saying goodbye and she didn’t even know it.”

— Markus Zusak

58. “Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. Just don’t ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

— Markus Zusak

59. “The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

— Markus Zusak

60. “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

61. “It’s hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”

— Markus Zusak

62. “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

— Markus Zusak

63. “When death captures me,? the boy vowed, ‘he will feel my fist on his face.’ Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.”

— Markus Zusak

64. “Don’t punish yourself,? she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

— Markus Zusak

65. “You can’t eat books, sweetheart.”

— Markus Zusak

66. “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

— Markus Zusak

67. “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”

— Markus Zusak

68. “Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father’s eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.”

— Markus Zusak

69. “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

— Markus Zusak

70. “I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.”

— Markus Zusak

71. “Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.”

— Markus Zusak

72. “Big things are often just small things that are noticed. – Ed Kennedy.”

— Markus Zusak

73. “Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.”

— Markus Zusak

74. “I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.”

— Markus Zusak

75. “You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.”

— Markus Zusak

76. “When a person’s last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.”

— Markus Zusak

77. “I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.”

— Markus Zusak

78. “Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

— Markus Zusak

79. “Every time you find something that doesn’t work, you’re a step closer to what does work.”

— Markus Zusak

80. “We’re silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I’m the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don’t. I don’t want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She’s beautiful.”

— Markus Zusak

81. “There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it – when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.”

— Markus Zusak

82. “The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.”

— Markus Zusak

83. “The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.”

— Markus Zusak

84. “She gave ‘The Dream Carrier’ to Max as if words alone could nourish him.”

— Markus Zusak

85. “Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”

— Markus Zusak

86. “If you can’t imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

— Markus Zusak

87. “If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”

— Markus Zusak

88. “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”

— Markus Zusak

89. “Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

91. “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”

— Markus Zusak

92. “So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

— Markus Zusak

93. “Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.”

— Markus Zusak

94. “A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster – I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

— Markus Zusak

95. “I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.”

— Markus Zusak

96. “When death has a story to tell, you listen.”

— Markus Zusak

97. “I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

— Markus Zusak

98. “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

— Markus Zusak

99. “Everything was good. But it was awful, too.”

— Markus Zusak

100. “Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held together by the quiet gathering of words.”

— Markus Zusak