01c. 1975 ADI..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months.There was no anger or reproach.It was Papa who spoke.How did it look?"Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADMax 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADThe night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADTheir heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADI have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADSoon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. Ther words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
08c. 1975 ADI walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
09c. 1975 ADPersonally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
10c. 1975 ADThe city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
11c. 1975 ADIt was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
14c. 1975 ADI deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
15c. 1975 ADPeople observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
16c. 1975 ADThe Proclaimers thunder through my head.Imagine it.Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. How will I ever listen to that song again? What will I do if it comes on the radio? I'll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
17c. 1975 ADRight. That's twenty-two fifty.""Twenty-two fifty?" We can't hide our exasperation."Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know.""That's obvious - the service is incredible.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
18c. 1975 ADI guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
19c. 1975 ADI'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 / quote ↗
20c. 1975 ADI actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
22c. 1975 ADIn years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
23c. 1975 ADBut then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?Markus Zusak / quote ↗
24c. 1975 ADWhoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.Markus Zusak / quote ↗
