Quote

Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

Markus Zusak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Book
Jews
Going
Jew
Sky
Summer
Color
Books
Nicely
Came
Thief
Everything
Thieves

More quotes by Markus Zusak

Image
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
Markus Zusak
Image
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
Markus Zusak
Image
But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
Markus Zusak
Image
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
Markus Zusak
Image
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
Markus Zusak
Image
Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
Markus Zusak
Image
They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
Markus Zusak
Image
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
Markus Zusak
Image
The conversation of bullets.
Markus Zusak
Image
I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
Markus Zusak
Image
We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
Markus Zusak
Image
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.
Markus Zusak
Image
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things. Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. How, though? Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
Markus Zusak
Image
Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
Markus Zusak
Image
If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
Markus Zusak
Image
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
Markus Zusak
Image
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Markus Zusak
Image
I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
Markus Zusak
Image
You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.
Markus Zusak
Image
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.
Markus Zusak