Home > Work > I Am the Messenger
21 " It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
22 " Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this. "
23 " I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it. "
24 " Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. "
25 " People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart. "
26 " If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. "
27 " It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay," we say. "I'm alright." But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer - it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. "
28 " Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it. "
29 " Big things are often just little things that people notice. "
30 " My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true. "
31 " My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the young men you see in this suburban outpost of the city -- not a whole lot of prospects or possibility. That aside, I read more books than I should, and I'm decidedly crap at sex and doing my taxes. Nice to meet you. "
32 " Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do. "
33 " When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again. "
34 " I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. "
35 " We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me. "
36 " The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. "
37 " No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. "
38 " It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else. "
39 " She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love. "
40 " I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it. "