Stacey

“She was suddenly aware of how empty her feet felt inside her shoes.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.”
― Markus Zusak

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“All my life, I've been scared of men standing over me... It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever known is not a man at all...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief