Quotes From "I Am The Messenger" By Markus Zusak

She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. Markus Zusak

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. Markus Zusak

I'm just another stupid human. Markus Zusak

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."" What's that, Ritchie?"His answer is simple." To want. Markus Zusak

Personally, I think sex should be like math. At school. No one really cares if they're crap at math. They even proclaim it. They'll say to anyone, "Yeah, I don't mind science and English, but I'm absolutely shithouse at math." And other people will laugh and say, " Yeah, me too. I would have a clue about all that logarithm shit. You should be able to say that about sex too. You should be proudly able to say, "Yeah I wouldn't have a clue about all that orgasm shit, ay. I'm okay at everything else but when it comes to that part I wouldn't have a clue. Markus Zusak

You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror. It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence." A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong. Markus Zusak

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

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

That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“ What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important. Markus Zusak

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first. Markus Zusak

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. Markus Zusak

It feels nice to emerge from the lies. Markus Zusak

There are pieces of me on the ground. Markus Zusak

The 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

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. Markus Zusak

The 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

Right. 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

I don't leave a note. There's nothing else to do. At first, I'd wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. This isn't about words. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big. Markus Zusak

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has. Markus Zusak

I love the laughter of this night. Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do. For now, just let us run. We run straight through the laughter of the night. . Markus Zusak