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“The eyes are very big and wide open,” a physician named John L. Capen later observed. “They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.”
“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
“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
“Happiness is not something you sit and wait for. You have to choose it and pursue it in spite of everything else. It’s not going to be given to you.”
― The Book of Doors
― The Book of Doors
“Freedom lies in learning to embrace what happened. Freedom means we muster the courage to dismantle the prison, brick by brick.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
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