Quotes By Markus Zusak

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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

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

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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

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It kills me sometimes, how people die.

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I am haunted by humans.

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Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

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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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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

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I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

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