Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.
Tag: words house shadow place window old-man small
I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about him, we knew we'd sort of miss him if something happened to him. It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone. Miffy, the Pomeranian wonderdog, was one such thing.
Markus ZusakTag: miss gone miffy pomeranian wonderdog
I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.
Markus ZusakTag: courage struggle mouth limit bridges knowing-when-the-time-is-right spoken-words
He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you realise how much it means to you.
Markus ZusakTag: brink come-back lose-your-pride realise
And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' inside us, making us wanna be someone for those names, and not just another couple of guys who amounted to nothin' but what people said we would. No way. We're getting' out of that. We have to. We're gonna crawl and moan and fight and bite and bark at anything that gets in our way or tries to hunt us down and shoot us. All right?
Markus ZusakTag: fight names bark someone bite be-someone hunt-us-down shoot-us
The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.
Markus ZusakYou know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.
Markus ZusakTag: lies irony injures letting-her-down looking-after-each-other
We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.
Markus ZusakTag: pride attack languish sidle walk-upright
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
Markus Zusak... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.
Markus ZusakTag: questions fight win test worth-nothing
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