Markus Zusak Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
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“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.”
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“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
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“When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.”
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“I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.”
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“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”
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“I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.”
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“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”
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“The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.”
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“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
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“As always, one of her books was next to her.”
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“I 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 constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
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“Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.”
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“Sometimes 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.”
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“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
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“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
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“I 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 at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.”
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“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”
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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.”
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“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
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“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
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“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.”
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“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.”
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“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
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“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
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“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”
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“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”
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“Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.”
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“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”
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