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Quotes About Contemplation

Tom drifting into an unremarkable and for the most part internal existence.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Another small mystery to muse over, if you like, or just forget, which I recommend.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I climbed aboard and took it in my hand, not realizing that I would keep it and view it several thousand times over the years. I would watch the places where we intersect, and marvel at what the girl saw and how she survived. That is the best I can do- watch it fall into line with everything else I spectated during that time.
~ mark zusak
She kept watching the words.
~ Markus Zusak
Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.
~ Markus Zusak
She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
~ Markus Zusak
I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.
~ Markus Zusak
Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
~ Markus Zusak
Maybe one morning I'll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
~ Markus Zusak
I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.
~ Markus Zusak
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
~ Markus Zusak
We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.
~ Markus Zusak
What I like best is walking with my hands in my pockets, having the Doorman next to me, and imagining that Audrey's on my other side. I always picture us from behind.
~ Markus Zusak
I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.
~ Markus Zusak
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
~ Markus Zusak
Don't think, I told myself. Think nothingness. But even nothingness was something. It was a thought.
~ Markus Zusak
Un asiento, dos hombres, una breve discusión y yo. A veces me mata ver cómo muere la gente.
~ Markus Zusak
There was also an acknowledgment that there was great beauty in what she was currently witnessing, and she chose not to disturb it.
~ Markus Zusak
Clay - who was the quiet one, or the smiler - only turned, one last time, and stared across the sunlit district of statues, crosses, and gravestones. They looked like runners-up trophies. Every last one.
~ Markus Zusak
Creo que a los humanos les gusta contemplar la destrucción a pequeña escala.
~ Markus Zusak
She was one of the few souls that made me wonder what it was to live.
~ Markus Zusak
MEET A PRIEST DAY
~ Markus Zusak
The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts.
~ Markus Zusak
Üzerinde bu kadar düÅŸünmen gerekirse, yapmaya deÄŸmez zaten.
~ Markus Zusak