Markus Zusak Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Broke, Glad

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.537, Random House

• He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

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  Love, Heartbreak, Sadness

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.531, RH Childrens Books

• Even death has a heart.

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  Life, Death, Heart

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.246, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

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  Mistake, Heart, Moon

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.536, Random House

• I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

  Markus Zusak

  Lying, Book, Heart

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

• Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

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  Heart, Humans, Good Sense

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.488, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

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  Heart, Scratches, Might

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Random House

• On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Heart, Dark

• 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. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

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  Heart, Circles, Envy

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.367, Random House

• People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

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  Hurt, Fall, Heart

• It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

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  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

• Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

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  Heart, Two, Snow

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.32, RH Childrens Books

• 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.

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  Heart, Legs, Lips

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

• Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

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  Heart, Dark, Rubble

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.242, RH Childrens Books

• So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

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  Memories, Heart, Clouds

• She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

• Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

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  Heart

• It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

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  Tired, Heart, Years

• Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

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  Heart, Body, Heavy

• I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

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  Brother, Moving, Heart

• Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

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  Heart, Smell, Crime

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.490, RH Childrens Books

• People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

  Markus Zusak

  Couple, Heart, Men

• I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Hero, Writing

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