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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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“Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.”

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“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

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“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

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“You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.”

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“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

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“The thrill of being ignored!”

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“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

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“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

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“Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.”

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“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”

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“I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.”

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“A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

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“The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.”

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“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”

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“Competence was attractive.”

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“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

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“There were stars. They burned my eyes.”

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“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

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“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

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“The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.”

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