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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bbca40f | In the shell-shocked kitchen, somewhere near the stove, there's an image of a lonely, overworked typewriter. It sits in a distant, near-empty room. Its keys are faded and a blank sheet waits patiently upright in the assumed position. It wavers slightly in the breeze from the window. Coffee break is nearly over. A pile of paper, the height of a human stands casually by the door. It could easily be smoking. | Markus Zusak | ||
| cad7819 | You're an idiot-but you're our kind of idiot. Come on. | Markus Zusak | ||
| bbb38b1 | If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it. It was the best time of her life. But it was bombing carpet. Make no mistake. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a8d7909 | Not leaving; an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9d3c376 | I look through the old record collection my dad gave me. Stress relief. I shuffle through the albums feverishly and find what I'm looking for-the Proclaimers. I chuck it on and watch it spin. The ridiculous first notes of "Five Hundred Miles" come on, and I feel like going berserk. Even the Proclaimers are giving me the shits tonight. Their singing's an abomination." | humor location-1259 music record singing stress stress-relief the-proclaimers | Markus Zusak | |
| 2acdf0b | There are just people going about what they always do. Talking. Parking crooked. | funny human-nature humor location-3548 parking people | Markus Zusak | |
| c71e5d2 | How do you give someone a piece of sky? Late in February, she stood on Munich Street and watched a single giant cloud come over the hills like a white monster. It climbed the mountains. The sun was eclipsed, and in it's place, a white beast with a gray heart watched the town. | opening-lines | Markus Zusak | |
| 93e520d | On Friday a statement arrived to say that Hans Hubermann was to be drafted into the German army. A member of the Party would be happy to play a role in the war effort, it concluded. If he wasn't, there would certainly be consequences | Markus Zusak | ||
| 43a154b | The brown-shirted extremist members of the NSDAP (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) had marched down Munich Street, their banners worn proudly, their faces held high, as if on sticks. Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of Deutschland uber Alles. Germany over Everything | Markus Zusak | ||
| c92b1d7 | a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn | Markus Zusak | ||
| 81915bc | I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy like you can stand up and do what you did for all those people, well, maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. Maybe even I can... | Markus Zusak | ||
| d8c7d87 | Death | Markus Zusak | ||
| cd86b31 | What are you assholes looking at? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 773db5b | You want to know what I truly look like? Find yourself a mirror while I continue. -Death | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1192df0 | I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 6e266d3 | Not leaving': an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5447b71 | I would have not taken it badly. After reading 'The Book Thief', I discovered that she called everyone that 'Saukerl', 'Saumensen'. Especially the people she loved | Markus Zusak | ||
| c23a0c5 | Le coeur humain est une ligne, tandis que le mien est un cercle, et j'ai la capacite infinie de me trouver au bon moment au bon endroit. En consequence, je trouve toujours des humains au meilleur et au pire d'eux-memes. Je vois leur beaute et leur laideur, et je me demande comment une meme chose peut reunir l'une et l'autre. Reste que je les envie sur un point. Les humains ont au moins l'intelligence de mourir. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5df9860 | Les meilleurs secoueurs de mots etaient ceux qui avaient compris le pouvoir des mots. Ceux qui pouvaient monter le plus haut. Parmi eux se trouvait une fillette toute menue. On la considerait comme la meilleure secoueuse de mots de sa region, car elle savait que sans les mots, on etait reduit a l'impuissance. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ff1f539 | Elle, la voleuse de livres depourvue de mots. Mais croyez-moi, les mots allaient venir et, lorsqu'ils arriveraient, Liesel les prendrait dans sa main, comme les nuages, et elle en exprimerait la substance, comme la pluie. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0d0b856 | First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. | death fact humanity humans mortality rhyming the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 2836109 | Que gran maldad puede encubrir la prolongacion de una vida. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e9c6c7c | As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope, considering the length of time I've been performing this job. The trouble is, who could ever replace me? Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody, which has prompted me to make a conscious, deliberate decis.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c66e742 | There was the odd suburban thunderbolt, but they were mostly those people who'd found each other; they were golden and bright-lit and funny. Often they seemed in cahoots somehow, like jailbirds who wouldn't leave; they loved us, they us, and that was a pretty good trick. | parenting parents | Markus Zusak | |
| f89a267 | There were great big shrugs of breath of him... | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4e6deec | THE SPOKEN TRUTH OF RUDY STEINER "I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7c34502 | He is straight ahead, straight out, straight and hard, and ready to fight. "Hope you're better than your brother," someone calls. It hurts me. Wounds me. "I am." But not as much as that." | fighting-ruben-wolfe | Markus Zusak | |
| ed724fd | Anhelaba volver a la inconsciencia de entonces, a sentir tanto amor sin saberlo y a confundirlo con las risas y el pan untado con poco mas que el aroma de la mermelada. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 99ed7ed | But Hans Junior wasn't finished. He stepped closer and said, "You're either for the Fuhrer or against him--and I can see that you're against him. You always have been." Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth. "It's pathetic--how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 408935a | He wanted to walk out--Lord, how he wanted to (or at least he to want to)--but he knew he wouldn't. It was much the same as the way he left his family in Stuttgart, under a veil of fabricated loyalty. To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0486920 | To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind. | Anne Bancroft | ||
| 1c9404a | Getting back to Audrey, though, I should really feel complimented that she won't ever touch me because she likes me more than anyone else. It makes perfect sense, really, doesn't it? If she ever gets down or depressed, i can make out the figure of her through the front window of the shack. She comes in and we drink cheap beer or wine and watch a movie or all three. Something old and long like Ben-Hur that stretches into the night. She'll be.. | longing love | Markus Zusak | |
| 02c8e21 | What do I do now?" I ask desperately. "Tell me! What do I do now?" He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, "Keep living, Ed.... It's only the pages that stop here." He stays perhaps another ten minutes, probably due to the trauma that has strapped itself to me. I remain standing, trying to contemplate and recover from what's transpired. "I really think I'd better go," he says again, this item with more finality. With difficu.. | love messenger realization | Markus Zusak | |
| bed0230 | When she made it down to Munich Street, the book thief swerved in and out of the umbrellaed men and women--a rain-cloaked girl who made her way without shame from one garbage can to another. | Markus Zusak | ||
| bf34cbf | For a few moments, Liesel said nothing. It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1816c91 | At that moment, Liesel was amazed by the width of the doorway. There was so much space. Why did people need so much space to get through the door? Had Rudy been there, he'd have called her an idiot--it was to get all their stuff inside. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a233d68 | She could have shot herself, scratched herself, or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option--to at least endure the discomfort of the weather. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 32148f2 | He wanted to walk out--Lord, how he wanted to (or at least he wanted to want to)--but he knew he wouldn't. It was much the same as the way he left his family in Stuttgart, under a veil of fabricated loyalty. To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 26b8f38 | To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person. Certainly, his painting skills were excellent. His musical ability was better than average. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just . Not noticeable. Not important or particularly valuable. The frustration of that appearance, as.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 39e5a22 | He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c4ab4f1 | I was being Jesse Owens." he answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing. There was even something implicit in his tone that suggested something along the lines of, "What the hell does it look like?" | Markus Zusak | ||
| d456552 | Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque esten llorando a lagrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando y hallando. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9142f82 | A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida mas de lo esperado. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0144d6f | Veo su fealdad y su belleza y me pregunto como ambas pueden ser lo mismo. | Markus Zusak |