Quotes About Max Vandenburg

#1. For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this:
She became thirteen years of age. Her chest was still flat. She had not yet bled. The young man from her basement was now in her bed.
***Q&A***
How did Max Vandenburg end up in liesel's bed? He fell.

Markus Zusak

#2. 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

#3. In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them
until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet ...

Markus Zusak

#4. THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.

Markus Zusak

#5. A fact regarding Max Vandenburg
He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.

Markus Zusak

#6. The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.

Markus Zusak

#7. If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

Abby Wambach

#8. Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

Michael Eisner

#9. 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

#10. The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Bette Davis

#11. The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. Sometimes all the players get a bad hand. You just have to be determined enough to see the game through.

Dean F. Wilson

#13. Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Bill Gates

#14. Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Irving Stone

#15. He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.

Markus Zusak

#16. I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

Harry Shum Jr.

#17. I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

Jon Kyl

#18. To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.

Samuel Butler

#19. You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.

Markus Zusak