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101 " One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
102 " I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. "
103 " 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 Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. "
104 " 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 quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax. "
105 " 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. "
106 " For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. "
107 " I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. "
108 " I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. "
109 " I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession. "
110 " You can't eat books, sweetheart. "
111 " In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. "
112 " But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? "
113 " Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. "
114 " If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. "
115 " If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet? "
116 " It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. "
117 " An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid. "
118 " You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity. "
119 " The moon was sewn into the sky that night "
120 " The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? "