Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
Markus Zusak
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Think
Papa
Thinking
Smiles
Breathe
Notes
Hear
Father
Accordions
Looks
Accordion
Sometimes
Breathes
More quotes by Markus Zusak
It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
Markus Zusak
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.
Markus Zusak
Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
Markus Zusak
When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
Markus Zusak
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Markus Zusak
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
Markus Zusak
As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
Markus Zusak
You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
Markus Zusak
You can do anything when it's not real.
Markus Zusak
I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.
Markus Zusak
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
Markus Zusak
Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
Markus Zusak
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
Markus Zusak
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
Markus Zusak
The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
Markus Zusak
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
Markus Zusak
I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
Markus Zusak
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
Markus Zusak
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
Markus Zusak
How'd it feel? Rube asked himself. I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
Markus Zusak
