“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.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play
“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
“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
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