Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3) QUOTES

2 " 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. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

4 " For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

6 " And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.
I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well.
The hunger.
The desire.
Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

8 " Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

10 " I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

12 " 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)

14 " 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)

16 " 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)

18 " There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)

20 " I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you. "

― Markus Zusak , Getting the Girl (Wolfe Brothers, #3)