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81 " A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid. Please - try not to look away. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
82 " When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing. "
83 " 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. "
84 " It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. "
85 " a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow "
86 " The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. "
87 " ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. "
88 " He was skinny with soft hair, and his thick, murky eyes watched as the stranger played one more song in the heavy room. From face to face, he looked on as the man played and the woman wept. The different notes handled her eyes. Such sadness. "
89 " He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted. "
90 " You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. "
91 " 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. His soul whispered it as I carried him. But there was no Liesel in that house. Not for me, anyway. "
92 " Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up... "
93 " sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. "
94 " I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me. "
95 " No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment. "
96 " ...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. "
97 " 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. . . "
98 " Papa!” she whispered. “I have no eyes!”He patted the girl’s hair. She’d fallen into his trap. “With a smile like that,” Hans Hubermann said, “you don’t need eyes. "
99 " 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. "
100 " Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful. "