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121 " She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
122 " All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
123 " Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. "
124 " It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. "
125 " She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. "
126 " All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
127 " See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself. "
128 " Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation. "
129 " A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid. Please - try not to look away. "
130 " Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdogs (Wolfe Brothers, #1-3)
131 " When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing. "
132 " Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy. "
― Markus Zusak
133 " The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. "
134 " It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. "
135 " a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow "
136 " I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down.Sometimes I just survive.But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.That's when the stories show up in me.They find me all the time.They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent.The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first.Maybe they all just merge into one.We'll see, I guess.I'll let you know when I decide. "
― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)
137 " The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. "
138 " You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again. "
139 " ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. "
140 " That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important. "