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In another half second her father’s hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the
“Often, the little upsets in our lives are emblematic of the larger losses; the seemingly insignificant worries are representative of greater pain.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“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.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“We can choose to be our own jailors, or we can choose to be free.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. “I will never fire a gun,” he devised. “I will not have to.” Still, he was not rash. Let’s allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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