Quotes by Markus Zusak

“Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.”

“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.”

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps its so they can die being right.”

“The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.”

“A small but noteworthy note. Ive seen so many young men over the years who think theyre running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesnt usually wait for very long.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”

“How do you tell if somethings alive? You check for breathing.”

“There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. Its such a beautiful day, he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.”

“A human doesnt 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 consequence of this is that Im always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”