Markus Zusak Quotes

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

... merely another weapon.

One must always shoot; always shoot, general.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

We're in a world war.

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

Oh, goodie. Let the bloodbath commence. (Zarek)

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

History has been the history of warfare.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.