Markus Zusak Quotes

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

~ Markus Zusak

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.

~ Markus Zusak

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

~ Markus Zusak

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has.

~ Markus Zusak

The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...

~ Markus Zusak

I love the laughter of this night. Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do. For now, just let us run. We run straight through the laughter of the night.

~ Markus Zusak

A final dirty joke.Another human punch line

~ Markus Zusak

A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?

~ Markus Zusak

Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.

~ Markus Zusak

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

~ Markus Zusak

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

~ Markus Zusak