{"author":"Markus Zusak","author_id":"Markus+Zusak","total_quotes":262,"quotes":[{"text":"See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["friends","hated","instincts","on-my-own","proud","roam"],"id":362,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things.' Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. 'How, though?' Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. 'Memorize it. Then write it down for him.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["giving","writing"],"id":1345,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. ","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["saddness","suffering","triumph"],"id":2617,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"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.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["cursing","cussing","holiness","holy","language","priest"],"id":3188,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["books","paper"],"id":3417,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our own place is small perhaps, but when your old man is eaten up by his own shadow, you realize maybe that in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about. Bringing the world to the window.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["drive","fight","inspiration","life","understanding-life"],"id":3928,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["war"],"id":4775,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["friendship","love"],"id":5607,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come.' Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["death"],"id":11356,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a crumpled mess, lyin' on her bed all the time.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["hurt","mess","obsessed","promised"],"id":11907,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":262,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}