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Bridge of Clay QUOTES

Bridge of Clay QUOTES

1 " There are hundreds of thoughts per every word spoken, and that's if they're spoken at all. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

2 " A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

3 " It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

4 " He’d told them what Saturday night meant. The mattress, the plastic sheet. He told them of Matador in the fifth. He said he loved her from the very first time she’d talked to him, and it was his fault, it was all his fault. Clay melted, but didn’t break, because he deserved no tears or sympathy. ‘The night before she fell,’ he said, ‘we met there, we were naked there, and –’ He stopped because Catherine Novac – in a shift of gingerblondness – had stood and she’d walked towards him. She lifted him gently out of his chair and hugged him hard, so hard, and she patted his short flat hair, and it was so damn nice it hurt. She said, ‘You came to us, you came, you came. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

5 " We skip the moments like stones. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

6 " She laughed and he felt her breath, and he thought about that warmness, how people were warm like that, from inside to out; how it could hit you and disappear, then back again, and nothing was ever permanent-- "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

7 " All that remained was to get to camp, learn English better, find a job and a place to live. Then, most importantly, buy a bookshelf. And a piano. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

8 " As if sensing the oncoming theatre, the pigeons arrived from nowhere, and dug in close on the powerlines. They were perched on TV aerials, and, God forbid, on the trees. There was also a single crow, fat-feathered and plump, like a pigeon disguised in a trench coat. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

9 " There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

10 " I loved you already then. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

11 " He was a great horse,” she went on, “and the perfect story—we wouldn’t love him so much if he’d lived. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

12 " Me, I'm known for bruises and levelheadedness, for height and muscle and blasphemy, and the occasional sentimentality. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

13 " She didn’t overreact. It may have crossed her mind to march down to the woman responsible for sending this charity shitbox, but she didn’t. She swallowed the glint of anger. She packed it into her prim-and-proper voice, and like her son, moved on. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

14 " Those kids, they would've loved this place, they would've walked and skipped and danced here, all legs and sunny hair. They'd have cartwheeled the lawn, shouting, "And don't go lookin' at our knickers, right? "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

15 " He was a wasteland in a suit; he was bent-postured, he was broken. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

16 " There was a kind of generosity to her, of heat and sweat and life. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

17 " There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

18 " They were virtuosos of alliteration and didn’t know it. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

19 " When you wait you start feeling deserved. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay

20 " The town itself was a hard, distant storyland; you could see it from afar. There was all the straw-like landscape, and marathons of sky. Around it, a wilderness of low scrub and gum trees stood close by, and it was true, it was so damn true: the people sloped and slouched. "

― Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay