Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are hundreds of thoughts per every word spoken, and that's if they're spoken at all.”
“A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home.”
“There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.”
“We skip the moments like stones.”
“She laughed and he felt her breath, and he thought about that warmness, how people were warm like that, from inside to out; how it could hit you and disappear, then back again, and nothing was ever permanent--”
“It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise.”
“He, as much as anyone, knows who and why and what we are: A family of ramshackle tragedy. A comic book kapow of boys and blood and beasts.”
“He’d told them what Saturday night meant. The mattress, the plastic sheet. He told them of Matador in the fifth. He said he loved her from the very first time she’d talked to him, and it was his fault, it was all his fault. Clay melted, but didn’t break, because he deserved no tears or sympathy. ‘The night before she fell,’ he said, ‘we met there, we were naked there, and –’ He stopped because Catherine Novac – in a shift of gingerblondness – had stood and she’d walked towards him. She lifted him gently out of his chair and hugged him hard, so hard, and she patted his short flat hair, and it was so damn nice it hurt. She said, ‘You came to us, you came, you came.”
“As if sensing the oncoming theatre, the pigeons arrived from nowhere, and dug in close on the powerlines. They were perched on TV aerials, and, God forbid, on the trees. There was also a single crow, fat-feathered and plump, like a pigeon disguised in a trench coat.”
“There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground.”
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Book Keywords:
life, sunrise, home, rain, impermanence
