Top 49 M Zusak Quotes

#1. Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #9823
#2. It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

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M Zusak Quotes #25627
#3. I'm afraid, of falling asleep again.

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M Zusak Quotes #85609
#4. The spoken truth of Rudy Steiner
'I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them.

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M Zusak Quotes #129333
#5. I'm just another stupid human.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #177130
#6. I'm twenty years old and look at me
there isn't a thing I want to do

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #197521
#7. 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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M Zusak Quotes #326040
#8. My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #338335
#9. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

Shaun Tan

M Zusak Quotes #433312
#10. 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

M Zusak Quotes #463280
#11. I'm Angelina," she says. "Are you here to save us?" I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes.
"You're right, Angelina - I'm here to save you."
"Can you? Really?"
"I'll try," I say and the girl smiles.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #469213
#12. 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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M Zusak Quotes #490837
#13. I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

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M Zusak Quotes #498568
#14. Just because I can't read, doesn't mean I'm stupid - Liesel

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #537410
#15. I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #551280
#16. 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.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #554323
#17. I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #573273
#18. It's the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you'd have been the same anywhere else.'( ... )'If I ever leave this place' - I swallow - 'I'll make sure I'm better here first.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #585825
#19. I'm pretty much just hoping to live decent. I hope that's enough.

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M Zusak Quotes #586277
#20. I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have

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M Zusak Quotes #590310
#21. Quite frankly, so am I, because what I'm about to tell you is a fact.
In this country, there is only one thing that can draw a crown without any shadow of a doubt. The answer?
Beer.
Free beer.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #602007
#22. I'm still standing here. Okay, it's a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn't the same?

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #612764
#23. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable. Not important or particularly valuable.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #644378
#24. I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

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M Zusak Quotes #646236
#25. What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy

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#26. I think only one thing.
Where 's Octavia?
As I get closer to the bottom, I notice that it's water that I'm falling into. It's salty-green and smooth, until ...
I'm driven through the surface and go deeper. I'm surrounded.
I'm drowning. I think. I'm drowning.
But I'm smiling too.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #687506
#27. I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?
You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

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M Zusak Quotes #735609
#28. Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

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M Zusak Quotes #792265
#29. Thank you.
For Max Vandenburg, those were the two most pitiful words he could possibly say, rivaled only by I'm sorry. There was a constant urge to speak both expressions, spurred on by the affliction of guilt.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #879894
#30. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered "Shhh, I'm here, its alright." After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #892067
#31. **** A 2 A.M. CONVERSATION****
"Is this yours?"
"Yes, Papa."
"Do you want to read it?"
Again, "Yes,Papa."
A tired smile.
Metallic eyes, melting.
"Well, we'd better read it, then.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #916751
#32. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #1092783
#33. Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a colour and all of that tired sort of nonsense. Well, I'm here to tell you that it is. White is without question a colour, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

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#34. A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I'm even tempted to sing along. It

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#35. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things ... ' She let the sentence die its own death

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#36. All the same, she cries on the front porch, and I wish I could go over there and hold her. I wish I could rescue her and hold her in my arms. How do people live like this? How do they survive? And maybe that's why I'm here. What if they can't anymore?

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #1179017
#37. 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

M Zusak Quotes #1243239
#38. No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. We smile a last smile, and I walk away. I feel her watching me, but I don't look back.

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M Zusak Quotes #1244892
#39. 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. (Death)

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#40. 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

M Zusak Quotes #1356336
#41. 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

M Zusak Quotes #1396991
#42. If I'm ever going to be okay, I'll have to earn it.

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M Zusak Quotes #1418646
#43. That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?"
"What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important.

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M Zusak Quotes #1537620
#44. If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

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M Zusak Quotes #1575527
#45. Two Giant Words: I'm Sorry

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M Zusak Quotes #1656264
#46. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." Papa's hands tightened on the splintery wood. "I'm an idiot."
No, Papa.
You're just a man.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #1659610
#47. 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.
And that's when I realize: I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Markus Zusak

M Zusak Quotes #1741040
#48. He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.

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M Zusak Quotes #1765608
#49. I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.'
And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me.
He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

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