Markus Zusak Quotes

You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right. I guess you could say I'm flying. We both are. And I'm pretty sure somewhere up there in the real blue sky and carpenter bee greatness, Amma's flying, too. We all are, depending on how you look at it. Flying or falling, it's up to us. Because the sky isn't really made of blue paint, and there aren't just two kinds of people in this world, the stupid and the stuck. We only think there are. Don't waste your time with either-with anything. It's not worth it.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.