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

— Markus Zusak

A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Markus Zusak

As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

— Markus Zusak

At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.

— Markus Zusak

Awkward. That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.

— Markus Zusak

A young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

— Markus Zusak

A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

— Markus Zusak

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

— Markus Zusak

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

— Markus Zusak