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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I'm allowed to want soft, special things.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“the ocean, its remorseless, lonely conversation with itself”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

“We don’t get the families we deserve,”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“he feels he isn’t so much living as he is merely existing,”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“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.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“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.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I would have not taken it badly. After reading ‘The Book Thief’, I discovered that she called everyone that ‘Saukerl’, ‘Saumensen’. Especially the people she loved”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The tears grappled with her face.
Rudy, please, wake up, Goddamn it, wale up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up.."
But nothing cared...

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Liesel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled hersel away, she touched his mouth with her fingers. Her hands were tremblin, her lips were fleshy, and she leaned in once more, this time losing control and misjudging it. Their teeth collided on the demolised world of Himmel Street.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Insane or not, Rudy was always destined to be Liesel's best friend. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.
Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right.
You see?
Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak (The Book Thief), The Book Thief

“I think that’s as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I walked around to see her better, and from the moment I witnessed her face again, I could tell that this was who she loved the most.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch?" -- Rudy Steiner”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“In my experience, women with sharp tongues usually have soft lips.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“I hope you find yourself in a book someday. And I hope that book lives forever.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“Small moments you catch and keep in glass jars like fireflies, or you let go.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics