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“Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.”

Source: The Book Thief

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.
Source: The Book Thief

“There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”

Markus Zusak

Source: Underdog

“I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.”

Markus Zusak

Source: Underdog

“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
"Don't punish yourself," she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

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

Markus Zusak

Source: Getting the Girl

“The thrill of being ignored!”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“The silence was always the greates temptation.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.”

Markus Zusak

Source: I Am the Messenger

“One wild card was yet to be played.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Saumensch, du dreckiges—it’s about time!”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

The Book Thief