Frases de Markus Zusak

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“Às vezes as pessoas são lindas.
Não na aparência.
Não no que eles dizem.
Simplesmente entra naquilo que eles são.”

“Ele faz algo comigo, aquele garoto. Toda vez. É o seu único prejuízo. Ele pisa no meu coração. Ele me faz chorar.”

“Como a maioria das misérias, começou parecendo felicidade.”

“Me mata às vezes, como as pessoas morrem.”

“Até a morte tem um coração.”

“As palavras pousaram na mesa e se posicionaram no meio. As três pessoas ficaram a olhá-las. As tênues esperanças não ousaram elevar-se mais do que isso. Ele ainda não morreu. Ele ainda não morreu.”

“Por alguns instantes, Liesel ficou calada. Era uma daquelas conversas que precisam que um tempo se escoe entre um dito e outro.”

“No começo, Liesel não conseguiu dizer nada. Talvez fosse a súbita turbulência do amor que sentiu por ele. Ou será que sempre o tinha amado? Era provável. Impedida como estava de falar, desejou que ele a beijasse. Quis que ele arrastasse sua mão e a puxasse para si. Não importava onde a beijasse. Na boca, no pescoço, na face. Sua pele estava vazia para o beijo, esperando.”

“Os seres humanos me assombram.”

“Acho que, quando alguém lhe conta uma coisa que costuma guardar, você se sente privilegiado, não por saber algo que ninguém mais sabe, mas por se sentir escolhido. Dá a impressão de que aquela pessoa quer que a vida dela se entrelace com a sua.”

“E o riso dele? Er aalgo absolutamente dominador. Ninguém tinha a menor chance diante dele”

“Pronto — disse, jogando uma única bala no balcão. — Misture você. Do lado de fora, eles a desembrulharam e tentaram parti-la ao meio com os dentes, mas o açúcar estava duro feito vidro. Duro demais, até para as presas animalescas de Rudy. Em vez disso, tiveram que alternar chupadelas até a bala acabar. Dez chupadelas para Rudy. Dez para Liesel. Para lá e para cá.”

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”

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

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”

“What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy”

“He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

“There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.”

“Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.”

“They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”

“There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange.
Something about a kiss.
Something about a Saumensch.
How many times did she have to say goodbye?”

“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”

“She kept watching the words.”

“The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”

“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”

“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”

“A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

“My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.”

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”

“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.)”

“When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.

Yes.

I like that a lot.”

“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

“It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.”

“Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.”

“She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.”

“Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.”

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”