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- I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know…
- I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory…
- Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in…
- I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I…
- She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed…
- All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
- Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her…
- She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between…
- Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,…
- On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved…
- I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.
- A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am…
- So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on…
- As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . .…
- You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I…
- There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are....…
- And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.
- It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
- She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked…
- Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her…
- Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing…
- Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.
- You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him…
- All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were…
- Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.
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