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,…"

"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 as…"

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."

"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."

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

"She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and…"

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."