Markus Zusak Zitate

„Menschen sterben an gebrochenem Herzen. Sie bekommen Herzinfarkte. Und es ist das Herz, das am meisten wehtut, wenn etwas schief geht und auseinander fällt.“

„Woher weiß man, ob etwas lebendig ist?
Man schaut nach, ob es atmet.“

„So ein Typ war er. Ruben Wolf. Wenn er am Leben war, war er okay.“

„Und es sollte mir einmal mehr beweisen, dass eine Gelegenheit geradewegs zu einer anderen führt, genauso wie ein Risiko ein weiteres nach sich zieht, ein Leben ein anderes und ein Tod den nächsten.“

„Y ese beso, Saumensch?“

„Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl.“

„‎"Und seid versichert, diese Frau hatte tatsächlich ein Herz, und zwar ein größeres, als die meisten Leute vermutet hätten. Da war eine Menge drin, aufgestapelt, meterhoch auf verborgenen Regalen.“

„Die Noten wurden in ihrem Atem geboren und starben auf ihren Lippen.“

„Sergeant Stephan Schneider“

„Ich…" Er kämpfte mit der Antwort. "Als alles still war, bin ich hinaufgegangen, und im Flur habe ich gesehen, dass der Vorhang im Wohnzimmer einen Spalt offen stand… ich konnte nach draußen sehen. Ich habe nur ein paar Sekunden lang hingeschaut."
Er hatte die Welt da draußen seit zweiundzwanzig Monaten nicht mehr gesehen.
Keine Wut. Kein Tadel.
Papa stellte eine Frage.
"Wie hat es ausgesehen?"
Max hob den Kopf. In seinem Blick standen Trauer und Erstaunen.
"Da waren Sterne", sagte er. "Sie haben meine Augen verbrannt.“

„Sie verabschiedete sich und wusste es nicht einmal.“

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”

“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”

“It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”

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

“Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.”

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

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Even death has a heart.”

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

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”

“My heart is so tired”

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”

“A small fact:
You are going to die…. does this worry you?”

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”