Markus Zusak Quotes

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

But I could be wrong.

Some things were beyond understanding.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

I'm never absolutely sure of anything, and I don't want to be. You're either right and you'll pull through, or you're not. We're never going to be right about everything, and we've certainly been wrong.

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy