Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Streams
Findings
Finding
Faces
Stagger
Humans
Amazes
Even
Coughing
Flowing
Searching

More quotes by Markus Zusak

Image
Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
Markus Zusak
Image
The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
Markus Zusak
Image
An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
Markus Zusak
Image
The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.
Markus Zusak
Image
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
Markus Zusak
Image
Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Markus Zusak
Image
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
Markus Zusak
Image
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
Markus Zusak
Image
Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
Markus Zusak
Image
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
Markus Zusak
Image
When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
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
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
Markus Zusak
Image
You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.
Markus Zusak
Image
Competence was attractive.
Markus Zusak
Image
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
Markus Zusak
Image
The conversation of bullets.
Markus Zusak
Image
an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
Markus Zusak
Image
You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
Markus Zusak
Image
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
Markus Zusak