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He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.


Markus Zusak

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MARKUS ZUSAK I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I ...
MARKUS ZUSAK When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
MARKUS ZUSAK Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn...
MARKUS ZUSAK What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your finge...
MARKUS ZUSAK You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
MARKUS ZUSAK Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.
MARKUS ZUSAK It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed...
MARKUS ZUSAK أحياناً تقوم بقراءة كتاب من روعته تريد اصطحابه معك لعد...
MARKUS ZUSAK Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
MARKUS ZUSAK Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
MARKUS ZUSAK ***A KEY WORD***
Imagined
MARKUS ZUSAK All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of t...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the...
MARKUS ZUSAK She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-s...
MARKUS ZUSAK Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.
MARKUS ZUSAK At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK You can't eat books, sweetheart.
MARKUS ZUSAK I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would ...
MARKUS ZUSAK So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
MARKUS ZUSAK I think only one thing.

Where 's Octavia?

As I get closer to the bottom, I no...
MARKUS ZUSAK We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
MARKUS ZUSAK The Charcoal Sky

Sometimes you go to the wrong place, but the right way comes and finds y...
MARKUS ZUSAK What is it about the sound of clapping hands? Why does it seem like an ocean of sound, breaking like...
MARKUS ZUSAK As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
The funny thing is that okayness...
MARKUS ZUSAK Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
MARKUS ZUSAK Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.
MARKUS ZUSAK You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets...
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
MARKUS ZUSAK All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even the...
MARKUS ZUSAK It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue...
MARKUS ZUSAK I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiti...
MARKUS ZUSAK The idea that he is haunted by what humans do — I just loved that irony because we are all so afrai...
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