Markus Zusak Quotes

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

It's a strange thing when someone passes away. It's always when you're not expecting it that you're affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we'd never been before.

I'm not desensitized to death.

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

Books wind into the heart.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.