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  • #1
    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #2
    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #3
    Markus Zusak
    “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.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #4
    Markus Zusak
    “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “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)”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #6
    Markus Zusak
    “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    Markus Zusak
    “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #9
    Markus Zusak
    “Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #10
    Markus Zusak
    “Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
    Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even 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...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #14
    Markus Zusak
    “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #15
    Markus Zusak
    “When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #16
    Markus Zusak
    “After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.

    ***TWO QUESTIONS***
    Would the gates shut behind her?
    Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out?

    As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things.
    Stealth. Nerve. Speed.
    More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement.
    Luck.

    Actually.
    Forget the ten minutes.
    The gates open now.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #17
    Markus Zusak
    “Oh, come on, Arthur."
    "I don't want to hear it, Andy."
    "Jesus Christ"
    "He doesn't want to hear it, either.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “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 is
    like a yellow hole. . .”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?”
    Markus Zusak

  • #20
    Jarod Kintz
    “The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

  • #21
    John Green
    “Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #22
    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #24
    John Green
    “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #25
    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #26
    John Green
    “You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #28
    John Green
    “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #29
    John Green
    “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #30
    John Green
    “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #31
    John Green
    “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #32
    John Green
    “Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines



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