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Quotes About Mystery

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
~ Markus Zusak
A bathrobe answered the door. Inside it, a woman...
~ Markus Zusak
There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.
~ Markus Zusak
The moon was sewn into the sky that night
~ Markus Zusak
Around six-thirty, Rory was across the street, leaning against a telegraph pole, smiling just for laughs; the world was filthy, and so was he. After a short search, he pulled a long strand of girls' hair from his mouth. Whoever she was, she was out there somewhere, she lay open-legged in Rory's head. A girl we'll never know, or see.
~ Markus Zusak
That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend __ what humans are capable of.
~ Markus Zusak
Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one than 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.
~ Markus Zusak
She sang a song, but it was so quiet that Liesel could not make it out. The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips.
~ Markus Zusak
ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky.
~ Markus Zusak
the moon was sewn into the sky that night. Clouds were stitched around it.
~ Markus Zusak
Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas cosas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.
~ Markus Zusak
It travelled and wondered, but it disclosed no answers. Not yet.
~ Markus Zusak
There were great big shrugs of breath of him...
~ Markus Zusak
I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.
~ Markus Zusak
Crossword?" he would ask.
~ Markus Zusak
Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.
~ Markus Zusak
The question is, what color will everything be at the moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
~ Markus Zusak
We can't leave him here, the smell will kill us . . . and we can't carry him out the door and drag him up the street, either. We can't just say, 'You'll never guess what we found in our basement this morning . . .
~ Markus Zusak
Chapter One: It was quite fitting that the entire town was sleeping when the dream carrier was born...
~ Markus Zusak
era una buena chica. Mantenía la boca cerrada allí donde iba. Llevaba el secreto enterrado muy adentro.
~ Markus Zusak
El misterio me aburre, es una lata. [...] Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.
~ Markus Zusak
el crimen hablaba por sí solo.
~ Markus Zusak
That's the sort of thing i'll never know, or comprehend- what humans are capable of
~ Markus Zusak
The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
~ Markus Zusak