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~ Markus Zusak
Možda svatko može živjeti izvan granica onoga za što se smatra sposobnim.
~ Markus Zusak
We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.
~ Markus Zusak
He's fighting the world." And now, I watch as the underdog in the middle of the circle fights on and stands and falls and returns to his haunches and feet and fights on again. He fights on, no matter how hard he hits the ground. He gets up. Some people cheer him. Others laugh now and rubbish him. Feeling comes out of me. I watch. My eyes swell, and burn. "Can he win?" I ask it, and now, I too cannot take my eyes off the boy in the circle.
~ Markus Zusak
For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it. We'll give him seven months. Then we come for him. And oh, how we come.
~ Markus Zusak
Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you.
~ Markus Zusak
Se dio cuenta de que era mucho más fácil hallarse a las puertas de algo que haberlas cruzado.
~ Markus Zusak
Crossword?" he would ask.
~ Markus Zusak
A SMALL BUT NOTE WORTHY NOTE I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me. He
~ Markus Zusak
They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—
~ Markus Zusak
A SMALL BUT NOTE WORTHY NOTE I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.
~ Markus Zusak
The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon, I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages. The
~ Markus Zusak
They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible.
~ Markus Zusak
La paura è la strada. La paura è ogni singolo passo.
~ Markus Zusak
What are you assholes looking at?
~ Markus Zusak
Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.
~ Markus Zusak
Ahí radicaba el problema. La vida había dado un giro de ciento ochenta grados y, sin embargo, era esencial que actuaran como si nada hubiera ocurrido. Imagínate que tienes que sonreír después de recibir un bofetón. Y luego imagínate que tienes que hacerlo las veinticuatro horas del día.
~ Markus Zusak
I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.
~ Markus Zusak
With us [...] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around.
~ Markus Zusak
Not that it was a living hell. It wasn't. But it sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.
~ Markus Zusak
A TRANSLATION OF ROSA HUBERMANN'S ANNOUNCEMENT 'What are you arseholes looking at?
~ Markus Zusak
I was being Jesse Owens. he answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing. There was even something implicit in his tone that suggested something along the lines of, What the hell does it look like?
~ Markus Zusak
That one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
~ Markus Zusak
When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being cooked until too late. That's how I felt about the Commandant and his plans for Viteretz. Each of his actions was worse than the last, but then we adjusted.
~ Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch