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121 " It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere. "
― Markus Zusak , The Book Thief
122 " It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need. "
123 " In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. "
124 " There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. "
125 " The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss. "
126 " Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it. "
127 " A final dirty joke.Another human punch line "
128 " A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you? "
129 " Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness. "
130 " I am haunted by humans. "
131 " I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. "
132 " Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. "
133 " If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. "
134 " His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "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. More of them have already found their way to other places. "
135 " The consequence of this is that 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. (Death) "
136 " My heart is so tired "
137 " She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it. "
138 " I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. "
139 " One was a book thief. The other stole the sky. "
140 " She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. "