The book thief has struck for the first time -“ the beginning of an illustrious career.
– Markus Zusak
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- 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
- As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice. – Markus Zusak
- As always, one of her books was next to her. – Markus Zusak
- My arms are killing me. I didn’t know words could be so heavy. – Markus Zusak
- The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo. – Markus Zusak
- One eye open. One still in a dream – Markus Zusak
- It’s much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. – Markus Zusak
- Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. – Markus Zusak
- Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. – Markus Zusak
- The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. – Markus Zusak
- If your eyes could speak, what would they say? – Markus Zusak
- DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children – Markus Zusak
- She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did. – Markus Zusak
- The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. – Markus Zusak
- It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. – Markus Zusak
- If I ever leave this place-I’ll make sure I’m better HERE first. – Markus Zusak
- The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon. – Markus Zusak
- It feels nice to emerge from the lies. – Markus Zusak
- I don’t want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be. – Markus Zusak
- sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. – Markus Zusak
- There are pieces of me on the ground. – Markus Zusak
- In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right. – Markus Zusak
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak
- For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. – Markus Zusak
- But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? – Markus Zusak