Markus Zusak Zitate seite 4

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

I Am the Messenger

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

I Am the Messenger

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

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak buch Underdogs

Underdogs

„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.“

The Book Thief

„Y ese beso, Saumensch?“

„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.“

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak Zitate und Sprüche

„Marv glaubt an so etwas, und ich weiss, dass ich das nicht geringschaetzen sollte. Es ist, wie es ist.“

The Book Thief

„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.“

The Book Thief

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

The Book Thief

„Sergeant Stephan Schneider“

The Book Thief

„Sie verabschiedete sich und wusste es nicht einmal.“

The Book Thief

“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

Markus Zusak: Zitate auf Englisch

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole…”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“The day was gray, the color of Europe.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

Quelle: Underdog

“So many humans.
So many colors.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“… to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Variante: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Quelle: The Book Thief

“Competence was attractive.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Why me?' I ask God.
God says nothing.
I laugh and the stars watch.
It's good to be alive.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.”

“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all. He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief