Markus Zusak
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Biography
Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels that became international bestsellers.
"Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are."
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
"Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness."
"It kills me sometimes, how people die."
"I am haunted by humans."
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."
"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
"Even death has a heart."
"A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children"
"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."
"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."
"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."
"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."
"A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me."
"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."
"His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come."Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places."
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."
"So much good, so much evil. Just add water."
"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."
"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."
"A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTHI do not carry a sickle or scythe.I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue."
"My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy."
"As always, one of her books was next to her."