“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. ”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole. . .”
― The Book Thief
like a yellow hole. . .”
― The Book Thief
“So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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