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161 " In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right. "
― Markus Zusak
162 " How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere? "
163 " Tears were frozen to the book theif's face. "
164 " I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a crumpled mess, lyin' on her bed all the time. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
165 " If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze. "
166 " There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared. "
167 " I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary. "
168 " We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack. "
169 " 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 , The Book Thief
170 " ...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. "
171 " The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . . "
172 " In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground. "
― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)
173 " Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay? "
174 " And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me. "
― Markus Zusak , Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)
175 " Papa!” she whispered. “I have no eyes!”He patted the girl’s hair. She’d fallen into his trap. “With a smile like that,” Hans Hubermann said, “you don’t need eyes. "
176 " Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes. "
177 " The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
178 " Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful. "
179 " One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me. "
180 " I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. "