Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important."

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even 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...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."

"It kills me sometimes, how people die."

"A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children"

"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."