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181 " Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. Ther words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
182 " I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
183 " Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax. "
184 " The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin. "
185 " It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way. "
186 " For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. "
187 " I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
188 " I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. "
189 " People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. "
― Markus Zusak
190 " The Proclaimers thunder through my head.Imagine it.Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. How will I ever listen to that song again? What will I do if it comes on the radio? I'll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands. "
191 " I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it. "
― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)
192 " I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. "
193 " I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession. "
194 " You can't eat books, sweetheart. "
195 " In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. "
196 " But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? "
197 " Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. "
198 " If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. "
199 " If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet? "
200 " ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them. "
― Markus Zusak , Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)