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Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak Quotes

Total quotes: 6

Markus Zusak

Birthname

Birthday: June 23, 1975

Nationality: Australia

Occupations: Writer, Children's Writer, Novelist

Total quotes: 6

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

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Tagged: Depression, smiling, pretending

“First the colors.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Tagged: first lines of books

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Tagged: beauty, Confidence, Self-Love, Love

“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”

— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Tagged: Touch, Deprivation, Lust

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

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Tagged: weird loving friendship, snowball, goofy, Silly, playful, lasting friendship, Beginnings, Beginning, Perfection, Perfect

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

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Tagged: Love, True Love, Hate, boys

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