Markus Zusak Quotes

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

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.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

In the dark, all cats are black.

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

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

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

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