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was with him through those months when he died, Izzy. Someone with cancer, they don’t die in one moment. It’s a long slow death over weeks and months where everything that person is gets stripped away from them. It’s . . . dehumanizing.”
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“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
“Time doesn't heal. It’s what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility, when we choose to take risks, and finally, when we choose to release the wound, to let go of the past or the grief.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“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
“There were people everywhere on the city
street, but the stranger could not have
been more alone if it were empty.”
― The Book Thief
street, but the stranger could not have
been more alone if it were empty.”
― The Book Thief
“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
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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