Markus Zusak Quotes

I want a brighter word than bright

I like things bright.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.