Markus ZusakSometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.371ReadingTime
Markus ZusakShe closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears. ✨ Marku… ▶371Love
Markus ZusakAnd they would all smile at the beauty of destruction. ✨ Markus Zusak (2014). Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger, p.406, Knopf Books for Young Readers361Reading
Markus ZusakA human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The conse… ▶372DeathHumanityLove
Markus ZusakTwo weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.372Humanity
Markus ZusakCan a wolfe be beautiful?372Humor
Markus ZusakI could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that … ▶362ReadingTime
Markus ZusakI say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.352Love
Markus ZusakYou want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue. ✨ The Book Thief. Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.352Reading
Markus ZusakThe conversation of bullets. ✨ Markus Zusak (2013). The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition, p.175, RH Childrens Books341Reading
Markus ZusakThere were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. ✨ Markus Zusak (2014). Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am… ▶375HumanityReading
Markus ZusakIt was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way. ✨ Markus Zusak (2016). The Book Thief… ▶342ReadingTime
Markus ZusakI 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 ho… ▶342Humanity
Markus ZusakThere was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself… ▶331Life
Markus ZusakThere 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.… ▶364Time
Markus ZusakThe impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip-… ▶353ReadingTruth
Markus Zusak***A KEY WORD*** Imagined ✨ Markus Zusak (2014). Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers376Reading
Markus ZusakI only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into… ▶376HumanityReading
Markus ZusakThe happening that happened was that I met this girl. ✨ Markus Zusak (2011). Underdogs, p.46, Scholastic Inc.354Hope
Markus ZusakWhen death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot. ✨ Markus Zusak (201… ▶343DeathReading
Markus ZusakLiesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. ✨ Markus Zusak (2014). Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger… ▶354Reading
Markus ZusakYou cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read. ✨ Markus Zusak (2016). The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition, p.11… ▶354Reading
Markus ZusakAfter perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her kn… ▶365DeathLoveTime
Markus ZusakJuly 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. H… ▶376Philosophy
Markus ZusakI'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death ✨ Markus Zusak (2013). The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition, p.145, RH Child… ▶376DeathReading
Markus ZusakI realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. ✨ Markus Zusak (2007). I Am the Messenger, p.173, Knopf Books for Young Readers321Reading
Markus ZusakI wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am c… ▶333HumanityReading
Markus ZusakWhen 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 … ▶366Reading
Markus ZusakAfter another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the … ▶377Sadness
Markus ZusakAn eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid. ✨ Markus Zusak (2013). The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition, p.118, RH Childrens Books355Reading
