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Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1) QUOTES

Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1) QUOTES

1 " I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

2 " It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

3 " My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

4 " Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

5 " So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

6 " I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

7 " I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

8 " A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

9 " Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

10 " ... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

11 " The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes? "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

12 " At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

13 " 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)

14 " 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. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

15 " ... 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)

16 " 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)

17 " 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. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

18 " 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. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)

19 " 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)

20 " 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. "

― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)