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How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?


“He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller’s. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“All art is a kind of exorcism. This is what gives art its power to change the conditions of our life.”
― Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night
― Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night

“Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief

“I reached for our connection in hopes of understanding his emotions. Instead, I found only a wasteland. A completion, severed. An ending that could’ve been. And in that moment, I wished for all the pain in the realms, as nothing could be worse than the emptiness dividing our souls.”
― The Daughters of the Earth
― The Daughters of the Earth

“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugliness and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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