Markus Zusak Zitate seite 6

„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

“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”

Markus Zusak: Zitate auf Englisch

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.”

“I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?"
You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.”

Quelle: Getting the Girl

“The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“July 24, 6:03 A. M.
The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff…
Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing.
He killed himself for wanting to live.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.
'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’
… from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Summer came.
For the books thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the color of Jews.”

“Clearly, I see it.
I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there.
A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

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

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Variante: One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
Quelle: The Book Thief

“Everything was good.
But it was awful, too.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief

“Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.”

Quelle: I Am the Messenger

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?”

Markus Zusak buch Die Bücherdiebin

Quelle: The Book Thief