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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8868d31 | There's a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you a drink before the war. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3dce012 | They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails." | death language myla-goldberg | Myla Goldberg | |
| a5189c1 | Equity, they came to realize, was not the same thing as equivalence, as evidenced by beside tables and snowflakes the world over. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 5f192be | Having already funneled its students to their respective classrooms, the school's front hall was empty, its glass showcase in the same neglected spot outside the front office. ... She looked at it briefly, her eyes sweeping over the faces of students whose adult trajectories would lead them either to gloss over these moments or to spend their lives pining for their return. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 0af8baa | What struck Celia most about young children was the intensity of their passions, life too new to be modulated, perspective a possession not yet acquired. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 4d76dab | Miriam will never know what kind of dog attacked her, will imagine a Doberman or a German shepherd with snarling, angry teeth despite the fact she bears neither bite marks nor broken skin. It will never cross her mind that the dog was a beagle and that she was knocked over from a surprise more than force. The children of the house she fled will use the incident to convince their parents to keep the dog, which had been on the verge of being .. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 47d71c0 | While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have intensified with each decade of use she can't get it out of of her head that while she is speeding around in circles waiting to be told when to stop other kids are flying to the moon. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| fd57b95 | If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. I'll show you something. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1b351a2 | White is without question a color, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1410bd7 | First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. | Markus Zusak | ||
| baab8d7 | There's a multitude of stories (...) that I allow to distract me as I work, just as the colours do. I pick them up in the unluckiest, unlikliest places and I make sure to remember them as I go about my work. The Book Thief is one such story. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 99c5144 | The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. | poor-people poverty | Markus Zusak | |
| 5c736d8 | People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b232495 | Her hair was a close enough brand of German blond, but she had dangerous eyes. Dark brown. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2fee903 | It travelled and wondered, but it disclosed no answers. Not yet. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 00225af | It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d6ff924 | ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d3078ad | As for me, I remained a few moments longer. I waved. No one waved back. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c2bc36a | a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. | teens | Markus Zusak | |
| 3e827b5 | We only sit there now. Audrey and me. And discomfort. Squeezed in, between us. She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed." "I know." You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7dbb10b | First and foremost, we want a good clean fight." He adress only yhe Fuhrer now. "Unless, of course, Herr Hitler, you begin to lose. Should this occur, I will be quite willing to turn a blind eye to any unconscionable tactics you might employ to grind this piece of Jewish stench and filth into the canvas." | nazism | Markus Zusak | |
| 7a61631 | You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4267a0c | A human doesn't have a heart like mine. 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 ugly and their beauty, and i wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing i envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1be6fe0 | HERE IS A SMALL FACT You are going to die. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 97d9fb8 | A final dirty joke. Another human punch line. As with many of the others, when I began my journey away, there seemed a quick shadow again, a final moment of eclipse--the recognition of another soul gone. You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3ef2c26 | Papa's lungs were full of sky. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 82041f7 | God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3d9a13f | So many people chased after me in that time, calling my name, asking me to take them with me. Then there was the small percentage who called me casually over and whispered with their tightend voices. | people war | Markus Zusak | |
| b008077 | They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often," | Markus Zusak | ||
| c919031 | She was holding desperately on to the words that had saved her life. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f85d1c1 | If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3d04a77 | Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth. Clearly, | Markus Zusak | ||
| f22a396 | Ljudi su ponekad prelijepi. Ne po izgledu. Ne po rijecima. Vec samo po onome sto jesu. | Markus Zusak | ||
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markus-zusak the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| bd0bb0a | Ljudi nemaju srce poput mojeg. Ljudsko srce je pravac, moje je kruznica, a imam i beskrajnu sposobnost da budem u pravo vrijeme na pravome mjestu. Slobodno tome, uvijek zaticem ljude u najboljen i najgorem izdanju. Vidim njihovu ruznocu i njihovu ljepotu, i pitam se kako ista stvar moze biti i jedno i drugo. Pa ipak, na jednome im zavidim. Ljudi su, ako nista drugo, dovoljno razumni da umru. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c3c393d | The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling. | helplessness ignorant neighorhood oblivious sense tragedy | Markus Zusak | |
| e18d7e6 | Poniakoga khorata sa shchastlivi. Ne zaradi tova kak izglezhdat. Ne zaradi tova, koeto kazvat. Prosto zashchoto sa kakvito sa. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 727ad09 | There was also an acknowledgment that there was great beauty in what she was currently witnessing, and she chose not to disturb it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 88f0355 | Nagra ar senare skulle han bli en som gav bort brod, inte stal det - ytterligare bevis pa hur motsagelsefull manniskan ar. En nypa godhet. En nypa ondska. Tillsatt vatten och ror om. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 832c883 | a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 36413f3 | You see? Even death has a heart. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a4df2b6 | She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why she could climb higher than anyone else. She had desire. She was hungry for them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 512ac11 | From a distance, people observed. Such a thing was easier from far away. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 10ac16e | The moon was sewn into the sky that night | the-book-thief | Markus Zusak |