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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald