Markus Zusak Quotes

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

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

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.

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I am haunted by humans.[A Last Note from Your Narrator]

Even death has a heart.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

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.