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1 " The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
2 " He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry. "
3 " She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on... "
4 " If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. "
5 " 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 , I Am the Messenger
6 " Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are. "
7 " Even death has a heart. "
8 " Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. "
9 " I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life. "
10 " Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? "
11 " Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. "
12 " There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. "
― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)
13 " So much good, so much evil. Just add water. "
14 " Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. "
15 " I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness. "
16 " I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
17 " ***A KEY WORD*** Imagined "
18 " 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 , Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)
19 " It kills me sometimes, how people die. "
20 " A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me. "
