A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

A final dirty joke. Another human punch line

— Markus Zusak

A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. Furthermore, he is afraid. Please - try not to look away.

— Markus Zusak

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

— Markus Zusak

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

— Markus Zusak

A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. 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. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

— Markus Zusak

***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

— Markus Zusak

All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.

— Markus Zusak

All my friends seem to be smart asses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

— Markus Zusak