Markus Zusak Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Knowing

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

• I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Fall, Breathing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

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  Dog

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

• You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.' Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said. 'I'm hungry.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Hurt, Thinking

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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