Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doin... - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."
"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."
"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."
"The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important."
"***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die."
"Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."
"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."