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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children”

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Book Keywords:

sad, death, love, power-of-words, pain, sadness, life, children, boys, stoicism, hate, heartbreak

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