“He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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