Quotes by Markus Zusak

About Markus Zusak:

Markus Frank Zusak is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger (US title, I Am the Messenger), two novels for young adults which have been international bestsellers. He won the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2014 for his contribution to young-adult literature published in the US.
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

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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 won...

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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

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The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

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They're strange, those wars. Full of blood and violence - but full of stories that are equally difficult to fanthom. "It's true," people will mutter. "I don't care if you don't belive me. It was the fox who saved my life" or, "They died on either sid...

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1. The desperate Jews - their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys. 2. The Russian soldiers - taking only small amounts of ammunition, relying on the fallen for the rest of it. 3. The soaked bodies of a French coast ...

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Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.

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No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

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She kept watching the words.

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I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger

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He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.

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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

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As the kids dance around the front yard under the night sky and the lights, I see something. Lua and Marie are holding hands. They look like they're so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house. Lua kis...

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My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

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There are pieces of me on the ground.

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I don't leave a note. There's nothing else to do. At first, I'd wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. This isn't about words. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

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You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror. It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. "A dead man"...

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All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarkus Zusak
  • DescriptionAustralian author
  • BornJune 23, 1975
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award