Quote

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

Markus Zusak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Things
Glowing
Lights
Small
Bigs
Light

More quotes by Markus Zusak

Image
If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
Markus Zusak
Image
Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
Markus Zusak
Image
... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
Markus Zusak
Image
How about a kiss, Saumensch?
Markus Zusak
Image
The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
Markus Zusak
Image
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
Markus Zusak
Image
When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
Markus Zusak
Image
She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
Markus Zusak
Image
There were stars. They burned my eyes.
Markus Zusak
Image
Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Markus Zusak
Image
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
Markus Zusak
Image
For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.
Markus Zusak
Image
It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
Markus Zusak
Image
There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
Markus Zusak
Image
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
Markus Zusak
Image
Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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
If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
Markus Zusak
Image
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
Markus Zusak
Image
Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
Markus Zusak