Quotes About Zusak

For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as I had.

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

I walked in, loosened his soul, and carried it gently away.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

He, as much as anyone, knows who and why and what we are: A family of ramshackle tragedy. A comic book kapow of boys and blood and beasts.

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

Cuando empezó a escribir su historia, se preguntó por el momento exacto en que los libros y las palabras no sólo comenzaban a tener algún significado, sino que lo significaban todo.

In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened.

Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?

He'd probably say that he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.

A fact regarding Max Vandenburg He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.

was January 1939.

llevó el Führer? La pregunta los sorprendió

A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

Clearly , you're an idiot but you're our kind of idiot

I am all bluster— I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. -Death

Mama's eyes were like pale blue cutouts, pasted to her face.

En ese momento Liesel lo notó en los hombros: el dolor, el impacto del rechazo definitivo.

I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the color of rain.

I have hated the words andI have loved them,and I hope I have made them right.

He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky.

As far as dispositions go, hers wasn't really enviable, although she had a good record with foster kids in the past.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.