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141 " He was skinny with soft hair, and his thick, murky eyes watched as the stranger played one more song in the heavy room. From face to face, he looked on as the man played and the woman wept. The different notes handled her eyes. Such sadness. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
142 " He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted. "
143 " If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
144 " The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon. "
― Markus Zusak , Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)
145 " ... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
146 " You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. "
147 " The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them. "
148 " That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human. "
149 " We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it's beautiful in its own dangerous way. Dangerous because it's shared and taken and fought for.That's the best way I can put it, and thinking about it, when I walk past the tiny houses on our street, I wonder about the stories inside them. I wonder hard, because houses must have walls and rooftops for a reason. My only query is the windows. Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? "
150 " There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there he hoped to read one day. Liesel. His soul whispered it as I carried him. But there was no Liesel in that house. Not for me, anyway. "
151 " Sometimes people are beautifulNot in looksNot in what they sayJust in what they are "
― Markus Zusak
152 " You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us. "
153 " It feels nice to emerge from the lies. "
154 " I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be. "
155 " Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up... "
156 " sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. "
157 " There are pieces of me on the ground. "
158 " I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be. "
― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)
159 " Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it. "
160 " I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me. "