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The Book Thief

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

The Book Thief is a historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work.

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“So many humans.
So many colors.”

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“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

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“I can promise you that the world is a factory.  The sun stirs it, the humans rule it.  And I remain.  I carry them away.- spoken by death”

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“One wild card was yet to be played.”

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“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”

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“Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

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“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

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“Everything was good.
But it was awful, too.”

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“Even death has a heart.”

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“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

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Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”

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“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.”

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“How 'bout a kiss,?" -- Rudy Steiner”

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“My heart is so tired”

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“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

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“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

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“Clearly, I see it.
I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there.
A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.”

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“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”

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