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“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”
“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of...”
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”
“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”
“Death's Diary: 1942 -It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the scythe, God damn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a holiday.(...) They say that war is...”
“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”
“The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.”
“I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.”
“The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.”
“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”
“On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty a...”
“Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?”
“And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the ac...”
“One eye open. One still in a dream”
“Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
“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 as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull w...”
“Well, have you even tried again? You cant just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.”
“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”
