Quote

The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

Markus Zusak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Injury
Words
Brutality

More quotes by Markus Zusak

Image
The happening that happened was that I met this girl.
Markus Zusak
Image
The bombs were coming-and so was I.
Markus Zusak
Image
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
Markus Zusak
Image
I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.
Markus Zusak
Image
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
Markus Zusak
Image
She was a girl with a mountain to climb.
Markus Zusak
Image
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
Markus Zusak
Image
Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
Markus Zusak
Image
How does it feel, anyway? How does what feel? When you take one of those books? At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. Well? he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.
Markus Zusak
Image
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
Markus Zusak
Image
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
Markus Zusak
Image
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
Markus Zusak
Image
I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
Markus Zusak
Image
Competence was attractive.
Markus Zusak
Image
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
Markus Zusak
Image
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.
Markus Zusak
Image
There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.
Markus Zusak
Image
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
Markus Zusak
Image
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
Markus Zusak
Image
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
Markus Zusak