1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
6836
6837
6838
6839
6840
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf3a9a7 | The last words of Max Vandenburg - You've done enough. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 39c9e4e | Max", she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. " 'There was once a strange, small man,' " she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. "But there was a word shaker, too." | Markus Zusak | ||
| dd144b4 | She possessed the unique ability to aggravate almost anyone she ever met. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4882090 | Words are life, Liesel. | Markus Zusak | ||
| cfa732f | How do you give someone a piece of sky? Memorize it. Then write it down for him. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5696fc8 | THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN A BOY WHO HATES YOU A boy who loves you. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0238bd8 | I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on earth, it's true for the vast majority - that death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long. | Markus Zusak | ||
| da1135d | For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. | storytelling | Markus Zusak | |
| 9b36adf | The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3b217c6 | Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at the world above. I watched the sky as it turned from silv.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 6d03844 | This time, Mr. Steiner placed his hand on Rudy's head and explained, "I know, son --but you've got beautiful blond hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?" But nothing was clear. Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come. Two and a half years later, the Kaufmann Shoe Shop was reduced to broken glass, and all the shoes were flung aboard a truck in their boxes." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5442dfe | Diese Bilder waren die Welt, und es brodelte in ihr, wahrend sie inmitten der schonen Bucher mit ihren manikurten Titeln sass. Es kochte in ihr, wahrend sie die Seiten anschaute, die bis zum Erbrechen voll mit Absatzen und Worten waren. Ihr Mistkerle, dachte sie. Ihr geliebten Mistkerle. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2d648fb | Frau Lindner war eine scharfkantige Frau mit dicken Brillenglasern und einem ruchlosen Blick. Sie hatte sich diesen Blick zugelegt, um jeden Gedanken an Diebstahl in ihrem Laden im Keim zu ersticken. Sie hutete ihr Geschaft mit einer soldatesken Haltung, einer unterkuhlten Stimme, und selbst ihr Atem roch nach "Heil Hitler"." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 04d3aa9 | the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4858fde | Sie hielten sich an den Handen. Ein letzter, durchnasster Abschied, dann drehten sie sich um und verliessen den Friedhof, wobei sie mehrmals zuruckschauten. Ich dagegen blieb noch ein Weilchen langer. Ich winkte. Niemand winkte zuruck. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 11c1dd0 | You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0461cf3 | She attempted to explain. "I--when ... It was sitting in the snow, and--" The spoft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder." | Markus Zusak | ||
| cf0c947 | She looks up. She speaks in a whisper. 'The sky is soft today, Max. The clouds are so soft and sad, and...' She looks away and crosses her arms. She thinks of her papa going to war and grabs her jacket at each side of her body. 'And it's cold, Max. It's so cold... | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0d87d84 | one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ddc9c10 | It's no time to be half watching, turning around, or checking the stove - because when the book thief stole her second book, not only were there many factors involved in her hunger to do so, but the act of stealing it triggered the crux of what was to come. It would provide her with a venue for continued book thievery. It would inspire Hans Hubermann to come up with a plan to help the Jewish fist fighter. And it would show me, once again, t.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| cebe20a | Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up... | Markus Zusak | ||
| ae7df64 | Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl. | luck wishes | Markus Zusak | |
| 171cf5d | I urge you - don't be afraid. I'm nothing if not fair | Markus Zusak | ||
| 183c664 | In the tree shadows, Liesel watched the boy. How things had changed, from fruit stealer to bread giver. His blond hair, although darkening, was like a candle. She heard his stomach growl - and he was giving people bread. Was this Germany? Was this Nazi Germany? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 175f5e7 | The moment is so thick around me that I feel like dropping into it to let it carry me. I love the laughter of this night. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 33439a0 | THE LAST WORDS OF LIESEL MEMINGER** I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 34fb026 | They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5e70aa7 | His eyes were the color of agony... | Markus Zusak | ||
| ebfdfae | and shivered like the future. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 105c137 | The best word shakers were those who understood the true power of words. They were always able to climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the last of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be without words. She had desire. She was hungry for them. One day, however, she met a man who was despised by her homeland, even though he was born in it. They became good friends, and when .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 64702db | The survivors. They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on many occasions, I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colours to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling amongst the jigsaw puzzle of realisation, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f2f2759 | Arschloch, | Markus Zusak | ||
| a5ce6a1 | Here is a small fact: You are going to die. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 87b1295 | One eye open. One still in a dream | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3290707 | The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help - they were beyond that - but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 595a3ec | When it was over, they lay on their backs; there was a window on this, the top floor of the stairwell, and grubby light, and rising-falling chests. The air was heavy. Tons of it, heaping from their lungs. Henry gulped it good and hard, but his mouth showed true heart. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a171b9a | A human doesn't 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 I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugliness and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still they have one thing that I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3470927 | She seemed to collect the words in her hand, pat them together, and hurl them across the table. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a4d28eb | He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0e8a844 | He was not well-educated or political, but if nothing else, he was a man who appreciated fairness. A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn't forget that. He couldn't join a party that antagonized people in such a way. Also, much like Alex Steiner, some of his most loyal customers were Jewish. Like many of the Jews believed, he didn't think the hatred could last, and it was a conscious decision not to follow Hitler. On many levels, it wa.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 77132aa | With the curtains clamped tight, he would sleep on the floor with a cushion beneath his head, as the fire slipped away and turned to ash. In the morning, he would return to the basement. A voiceless human. The Jewish rat, back to his hole. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e3dc638 | I wonder if she'll ever know that no one will love her as hard as I do. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 6484c34 | When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. Their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, and their spirits came towards me, into my arms. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c595201 | concerned. Forget the cold and the loneliness. He was a Jew and if there was one place he was destined to exist, it was a basement or any other such hidden venue of survival. | Markus Zusak |