Top 500 Markus Zusak Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It’s probably what I love most about writing – that words can be used in a way that’s like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They’re the best moments in a day of writing – when an image appears that you didn’t know would be there when you started work in the morning.”

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352. “The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.”

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353. “It’s funny how when you watch people from a long distance, it all seems voiceless. It’s like watching a silent movie. You guess what people say. You watch their mouths move and imagine the sounds of their feet hitting the ground. You wonder what they’re talking about and, even more so, what they might be thinking.”

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354. “The happening that happened was that I met this girl...”

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355. “There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground.”

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356. “Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.”

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357. “When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.”

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358. “I tried not to sleep because I was afraid of who might be there when I woke up.”

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359. “There are hundreds of thoughts per every word spoken, and that’s if they’re spoken at all.”

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360. “Me, I’m known for bruises and levelheadedness, for height and muscle and blasphemy, and the occasional sentimentality.”

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361. “I notice a deliberate change in my brother. He’s harder. He has a switch, and once a fight comes near, he flicks it and he is no longer my brother Rube. He’s a machine.”

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362. “I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn’t even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, “That’s what I want to do with my life.””

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363. “When I found it amongst the book thief’s words, I realised that we passed each other once in a while during that period, though neither of us scheduled a meeting. Personally, I had a lot of work to do. As for Hans, I think he was doing his best to avoid me.”

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364. “It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.”

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365. “Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.”

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366. “I’d been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn’t go to university. I went to Audrey.”

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367. “Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing.”

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368. “A few of them performed the beautiful childhood art of snickering.”

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369. “But when they laugh, you can see the world in their eyes.”

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370. “One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.”

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371. “In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right.”

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372. “Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it’s way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It’s fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.”

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373. “I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That’s what I wanted. That’s what I wanted myself to be.”

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374. “He loved her more than Michelangelo.”

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375. “She even touches Jimmy’s face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”

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376. “The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see – the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on.”

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377. “The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”

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378. “I’m not one of these ‘the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me’ kind of writers. Wish it was like that.”

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379. “I love the laughter of this night. Our footsteps run, and I don’t want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don’t know what to say or what to do. For now, just let us run. We run straight through the laughter of the night.”

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380. “She had her whole death ahead of her.”

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381. “He was caught somewhere, in the current – of destroying everything he had, to become all he needed to be.”

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382. “There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.”

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383. “Are you looking at a dead man now?”

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384. “The stars set fire to my eyes.”

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385. “She laughed and he felt her breath, and he thought about that warmness, how people were warm like that, from inside to out; how it could hit you and disappear, then back again, and nothing was ever permanent –.”

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386. “Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.”

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387. “At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That’s where I’m walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”

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388. “A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.”

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389. “I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.”

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390. “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.”

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391. “He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.”

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392. “Winning wasn’t natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.”

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393. “You can do anything when it’s not real.”

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394. “When you wait you start feeling deserved.”

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395. “You can do anything when it’s not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.”

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396. “The thing is, I don’t even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.”

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397. “I walk out into the foyer. It’s caked in sunshine.”

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398. “On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift – to me. It makes me understand that the best standover man I’ve ever known is not a man at all...”

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399. “Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see – the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.”

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400. “Can a wolfe be beautiful?”

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