Markus Zusak, Getting The Girl Quotes

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

Make sure you live, ' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?