148 quotes found
“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”
“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
“Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.”
“There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there he hoped to read one day. Liesel....”
“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . .”
“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. ”
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”
“a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow”
“Papa! she whispered. I have no eyes!He patted the girls hair. Shed fallen into his trap. With a smile like that, Hans Hubermann said, you dont need eyes.”
“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds...”
“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes....from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
“Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.”
“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”
“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. Ther words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuh...”
“Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them q...”
“sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.”
“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.”
“For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.”
